Summaries/reviews of the day. I jotted things here that I wrote down and pertain to mostly everyone. Surely there were millions more discussed.
I have a book coming, being delivered Tues, about 18th Century English society. This should be a great resource on everyday life, social mores, values, and all kinds of things we can use to help us create these worlds.
Model Showing:
Re-iteration of the idea of the domino effect: political crisis--> family crisis-->personal change/ Thru the poetry we are shown a physical world that shifts as the events unfold. We shift from a world where everyone knows their place to a world without rank, order, or ceremony. All the things we need to make sense of the world have been eradicated or turned upside-down.
There is a sympathetic relationship between elements an character--the relationship between man and nature. See Lear's speech about "unaccommodated man" III.4.
Pier gives us: a stage within a stage, hierarchical relationships, a rough element.
God-less Beckettian landscape.
In the 1780s: the relationship between England and the American Colonies was described as familial. "Our father betrayed us" and "we lost our children. "
Staging:
Lear's Knights: they are his cronies. They are not peasants--these are country people. They love to hunt. They hold balls and horse races. They are Lear's companions.
Behaviour of the court: 18th century strict Georgian formality. Women deep curtesys and men bow. Lear's first entrance is all about the tension and anxiety: what's going to happen now? What's he decided? Lear's court is a tight ship, everyone knows their place and the appropriate physical/social behaviors.
Responses: you go with Lear-however he responds to something, the court should echo.
Contrast between Lear's world (male) and Goneril's world (female).
He might be Captian Von Trapp. ;)
Serious focus today on apposition and mining the text.
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