Photo Title

1956: King Lear

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Production Title

King Lear

Production Date

1956

Photograph Caption

Act III, scene 4. Kent leads King Lear to shelter in a hovel. Lear complains of the ingratitude of his two daughters.

Dialogue

Lear: "The tempest in my mind
Doth from my senses take all feeling else
Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude!...In such a night
To shut me out!...
O Regan, Goneril!
Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all--" (III.iv.12-20)

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King Lear

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Stage

Creator

Genre

Tragedy

Character

King Lear: Louis Calhern

Object Type

black-and-white photographs

Size of Original

8 x 10 in.

Donor

Cole, Joseph E.

Repository

Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.

Format

jpeg

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