Show Notes
Excerpts from the RTÉ radio 1950s recording of King Lear starring Anew McMaster as Lear and Eamonn Keane as The Fool. The music is Hawkmoon 269 by U2 from the 1988 album ‘Rattle And Hum’.
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Lear in Act 3 Scene 2 - I. Am a man more sinned against than sinning - Gloucester - ‘ O my follies! Then Edgar was abused. Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him. Edmund in Act 1 Scene 2 - Well, then, Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land: Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund As to the legitimate.
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