I hate that play. Like, it is my least favourite Shakespeare apart from maybe Coriolanus…
But no, as someone who has seen too many versions of it, too many times, I can assure you that it is not…
Whiteness is utterly irrelevant to what happens. However two of the utterly psychopathic villains within it are female, so I suppose this is one way of getting around mentioning that…
Seriously, they make Lady Macbeth look stable…
Just… I wouldn’t recommend reading this one. It’s… Not a good time.
Oh, also, it’s like… A treatise on dementia, and on toxic family. Race… Is not relevant.
But it’s just… Not something I would recommend, unless the only thing you watch is Game of Thrones and you want something even more brutal, lol…
That’s not to say it isn’t “well written”. It is, of course. But even as a Shakespeare play, it’s just… Too unpleasant, for my liking. And I think I’ve read 10 or so of those, by now…
I do note that in one version I saw (by the Royal Shakespeare Company, no less, I believe!), with Ian Mckellen in it as Lear, the baddies were all played by working class white actors, while the heroes were all a) posh, or b) *black…
Obviously that was intentional, but at the time I just thought the casting was jarring, not necessarily outright seditious, lol…
I hate that play. Like, it is my least favourite Shakespeare apart from maybe Coriolanus…
But no, as someone who has seen too many versions of it, too many times, I can assure you that it is not…
Whiteness is utterly irrelevant to what happens. However two of the utterly psychopathic villains within it are female, so I suppose this is one way of getting around mentioning that…
Seriously, they make Lady Macbeth look stable…
Just… I wouldn’t recommend reading this one. It’s… Not a good time.
You describe good drama.
Lear is one of my favorites.
Imp would approve of the mercenary daughters as accurate characterizations of women, but what would he say about Cordelia?
Oh, also, it’s like… A treatise on dementia, and on toxic family. Race… Is not relevant.
But it’s just… Not something I would recommend, unless the only thing you watch is Game of Thrones and you want something even more brutal, lol…
That’s not to say it isn’t “well written”. It is, of course. But even as a Shakespeare play, it’s just… Too unpleasant, for my liking. And I think I’ve read 10 or so of those, by now…
I do note that in one version I saw (by the Royal Shakespeare Company, no less, I believe!), with Ian Mckellen in it as Lear, the baddies were all played by working class white actors, while the heroes were all a) posh, or b) *black…
Obviously that was intentional, but at the time I just thought the casting was jarring, not necessarily outright seditious, lol…