The vision of King Lear by Sam Mendes & Simon Russell Beale
Academy Award® winner Sam Mendes (James Bond: Skyfall, American Beauty) returned to the National Theatre to direct Simon RussellBeale (Timon of Athens, Collaborators) in the title role of Shakespeare’s tragedy (King Lear)
The NT programme contains a fine essay by the Shakespearean scholar (and RSC governor) Jonathan Bate, who quotes W B Yeats and reproduce part in this blog.
“The history of a whole evil time” by Jonathan Bate
The great Irish poe W.B. Yeats once wrote that “We think of King Lear less as the history of one man and his sorrows than as the history of a whole evil time.” The story of Lear and his division of the kingdoms was available to Shakespeare and his audience in many different sources, including an old play and a sequence in Edmund Spenser’s epic poem of legendary British history, The Faerie Queene…
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