Posted by alexandra_k on September 15, 2004, at 16:54:14
In reply to Re: gg. » alexandra_k, posted by gardenergirl on September 15, 2004, at 10:11:07
Cool. Yeah, my favourite line is 'help to set a head on headless Rome' at the point where the royal family has (from recollection) two heads and maybe two hands between them (someone will probably need to correct my stats.)
What I really like about it is that it is a black comedy. The trouble is that people tend to think that it is supposed to be serious and that if the audience laughs at the gore then that is the sign of a bad playwrite. T.S. Eliot wrote 'it would be too highly honoured by the signature of Peele' and some critics condescend that it is 'not unworthy of the young Shakespeare'. But I think it is a black comedy and the audience is supposed to laugh in a carthartic (is that a word??) manner.
King Lear is great too, I studied that in my 2nd last year of high school. I love the clown
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