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King Lear The Shakespeare Play King Lear Essay

King Lear The Shakespeare play King Lear has been adapted for modern audiences and staged at the University of Miami's Jerry Herman Ring Theatre. Lee Soroko was the director, and made the decision to apply a modern context to the Shakespeare play. The result was surprisingly seamless. Veteran stage actor Dennis Krausnick plays King Lear, who in this case appears more like a military general than one might imagine when reading the original Shakespeare text. One tends to encounter all Shakespeare texts by imagining all set in Elizabethan times, so it is refreshing to see the face of Lear literally transformed. Krausnick's mature performance is remarkable. His facial expressions are as stoic as Patrick Stewart's are, and his needs only to shift his visage now and again to convey the various thoughts and emotions that pass through the King's tragic mind. His three daughters are played by Rachel Derby (who plays Goneril), Maggie Weston (who plays (Regan) and Annette...

The elderly Lear is ready to retire and facing his final years on earth. As he contemplates his mortality, he also meditates on how his legacy will remain in terms of how to bequeath his estate. He only has daughters, and so he must choose among them. Goneril and Regan recognize the opportunity to seize power. Gripped by their greed, Goneril and Regan both put on lavish performances, gushing about how much they love their father. Their costumes are streamlined and simple, which is easy on the eyes and offers a lithe profile. The audience can already see from this early scene in the play that the Soroko production will be a success. Goneril and Regan offer convincing renditions of the only slightly adapted original text, and can be outshone only by Lear's booming voice and deep jovial laughter at his daughter's flattery. The scene later…

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