King Lear reincarnates as Geoffrey Rush – it's a bloody tragedy
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
Lear's mordant images and sonorous cadences throb with dire warning and a sense of imminent catastrophe.James GreenIn one sense every play staged is a play for its times. Something about it attracts, provokes or seduces the minds of the living artists who put it on. Books wait on library shelves to be read again, if not in the same way, then at...







