Photo Title

1974: King Lear

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Production Title

King Lear

Production Date

1974

Photograph Caption

As her forces prepare to fight the French, Goneril plots to kill her husband and marry the treacherous Edmund. In this scene she gives Edmund a farewell kiss.

Dialogue

Goneril: "This kiss, if it durst speak, would stretch thy spirits into the air.
Conceive, and fare thee well."
Edmund: "Yours in the ranks of death." (IV.ii.22-24).

Play Title

King Lear

Venue

Stage

Company Location

Cleveland (Ohio)

Company Name

Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival

Place of Production

Cleveland (Ohio)

Creator

James Fry

Genre

Tragedy

Character

Goneril: Edith Owen
Oswald: Nathaniel Fuller
Edmund: Richard Yarnell

Object Type

black-and-white photographs

Size of Original

8 x 9 in.

Donor

Cole, Joseph E.

Repository

Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.

Format

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