I got an invitation for tonight to attend the Ashland-based Oregon Shakespeare Festival‘s 2004 production of King Lear. I think I’ll get a “Cliff’s Notes” version of the play to scan before I see it tonight.
Shakespear is so dense in thought-provoking dialogue that I have a hard time following any of the plays…my mind starts down tangents and then remembers I’m watching a play and by then, of course, I have missed some dialogue. All of that tangential stuff is good, I love it, but I would like for once to be able to remember what the play is about, at least generally.
So, I decided to do a Google search on “King Lear” and almost immediately found what appears to be a nice set of notes to help the first-time student or adult reader, “Enjoying ‘King Lear’”
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Side note, this is the first time I’ve extensively used links in my blog post. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it might be and it was actually useful because my commitment to add those links forced me to actually do the searches that lead to the links.
John
On Edit (After some spelling corrections): I found Barnes & Nobles has a site that provides book notes called SparkNotes. They have free online versions but you have to pay to get a pdf file. The King Lear version cost me $4.95.