humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

"laraine" wrote in message
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It might be interesting to look at the happy-ending
versions of Lear --I assume such play versions are
not performed anymore.
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I have seen Tate's version of "King Lear", done by a competent amateur
group, and thought it an effective play, though quite lacking the scope and
power of the original in both plot and language. Dryden's "All for Love"
(which I have also seen) is not an adaptation of "Antony and Cleopatra" but
a new play using the same basic material. It's really very fine and deserves
occasional revival, though - unfortunately but inevitably - it will always
suffer by comparison with Shakespeare's tragedy: the great does, alas, cast
a huge shadow over the good, and the similarity of story enforces the
comparison.

Alan Jones