After reading King Lear, both the Quarto and Folio versions, I'm convinced that the plays as published then emphasized a kind of visceral emergence, rather than any kind of straight lines, as if Shakespeare wrote moment-to-moment, rather than with any kind of whole in mind. I think Godard captured all that complication and chaos bang-on, and simultaneously expressed his own frustration with the experience of adapting the messy thing.
And let's contemplate "universality" for a moment. . .
After reading King Lear, both the Quarto and Folio versions, I'm convinced that the plays as published then emphasized a kind of visceral emergence, rather than any kind of straight lines, as if Shakespeare wrote moment-to-moment, rather than with any kind of whole in mind. I think Godard captured all that complication and chaos bang-on, and simultaneously expressed his own frustration with the experience of adapting the messy thing.
And let's contemplate "universality" for a moment. . .
Ondineist2 3 weeks ago