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This video is called Video SparkNotes: Shakespeare’s King Lear summary.
Simon Basketter in Britain takes a look at a new book that cuts through the mysticism around Shakespeare:
Tue 16 Oct 2012
Objects that bear witness to Shakespeare’s restless times
The last thing the eyeball of Edward Oldcorne would have seen was the executioner walking to disembowel him.
That eyeball became a relic. And the crowds who watched his execution in the morning could then go to a Shakespeare play in the afternoon.
Neil MacGregor points out in his new book on William Shakespeare, “A stage is actually called a scaffold, and in Henry V the Chorus uses the word.
“So when Shakespeare stages the gouging out of Gloucester’s eyes in King Lear, it is for an audience who would have seen people being disembowelled and the severed heads on London Bridge.”
There is probably more mysticism about Shakespeare…
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