"King Lear"- Leo McKern as Gloucester, Act I.i and ii

[q43iluk]

I loved it. But when Gloucester left and Edmund started to speak directly to the camera just like Office, I burst out laughing...

[Jemmer1000]

Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

[lawrencefat]

im asian and i have to play gloucester for english class ._.

[pensivebosom]

Leo McKern is perfect.

[ventusaccent6]

im going to do this for our shakespeare festival.

[Teezer44]

Michael Kitchen is the best Edmund Ive ever seen, to Michael Hordens Lear. He is so sly, conniving and witty. Deliciously played villain. Lindsay is an ok actor - not outstanding.

[BrookHornblower]

@Teezer44 what are you saying? Do you like the actor who plays Edmund in the 1979 bbc version or not? do you like Horden as Lear in that version or not?

[Teezer44]

@BrookHornblower Read my comment. I think the bit where i say he is 'the best Edmund Ive ever seen' should make it clear that i do like his portrayal. Do you understand English?

[BrookHornblower]

@Teezer44 no hablo ingelsi, senor!

[BrookHornblower]

see Edmund in the BBC video with Michael Horden's

[Teezer44]

@BrookHornblower Michael Kitchen is the best Edmund Ive ever seen, to Michael Hordens Lear. He is so sly, conniving and witty. Deliciously played villain. Lindsay is an ok actor - not outstanding.

[SongwriterChic]

My drama group is doing this at school for the Shakespeare School Festival - I'm playing Gloucester.

I'm usually pretty good at grasping Shakespeare, but this play is so hard to understand! i don't really know what half of my lines mean. :/

[Reaper978]

Can someone explain the meaning of "sleep till I waked him"?

[guitarfolies]

It means: "were dead and would never wake" (based on Richard Foakes' comment in the Arden Shakespeare Edition)

[Reaper978]

Thanks bro

[hollowmonkeybones]

That was terrible. I wonder if R.L actually read the play...I've seen better villians on cereal boxes.

[Bierreisender]

King Rumpole! HE who must be obeyed!

[AldoMier1985]

This is Act 1, Scene two, where Edmund cheats Gloucester; and Act 1, Scene 3, where Cordelia complains with Oswald about her father and his riotous knights

[eannak]

excellent potrayal

[eannak]

edmund wat a snake!

[Jacobus180670]

this is a curious depiction! Robert Lindsay is certainly not portraying a villain similar to Iago in the sense that he is convinced of his way forward. His eyes twitch left and right and show none of the resolution Iago has displayed.

Perhaps Robert Lindsay was not confident in portraying this character. Somehow the body language doesn't fit the audio!

[Ne0mega]

act I scene I is where lear divides the kingdom and asks for flattery. There is no way this is 1.1

[EbClectic]

yep. bu hey- nobody´s perfect ;-)

[Staver9]

Why bastard? Wherefore base?

Why indeed.....

[Kanaris44]

I must say Robert Lindsay makes a fine Edmund!

[williamliam13]

Gloucester is freaky as hell

[dudeman313]

These are scenes 2 and 3, not 1 & 2

[ShakespeareAndMore]

It is customary, when noting scenes in Shakespeare, to mention which edition one is referring to. Act and scene divisions sometimes differ between editions, but especially "Lear" with it's unusually variant texts....In the Arden edition, this video clip is indeed scenes 1 & 2.

[Yerdua2]

with the Arden edition on my lap, I can safely say that these are scenes 2 and 3. (p 179, beginning of scene 2)