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Jun 2023
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EP15 – Take My Eyes | Shakespeare, King ...

David Anderson and Eric Williams
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William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act Four, Scene Five.  Lear has lost his kingdom, his family, his security and his sanity.  When he encounters his old friend the Earl of Gloucester, who has been savagely blinded, we witness one of the strangest and yet richest conversations in all of literature.  Choked with both rage and guilt, Lear intercuts fantasies of revenge with flashes of moral clarity, and fumbles toward a profound articulation of what it means to suffer.

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Theme Music: "Nobility" by Wicked Cinema

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