Jeffrey Cohen at George Washington U in DC, who’ll be hosting a wonderful event known as the TemFest on December 3 to which everyone should certainly come, has some very stimulating thoughts on teaching King Lear and the heartbreaking final scene of the Kozinstev film.
Makes me think that one of my usual pedagogical responses to Kozinstev’s great film, emphasizing the politics of suffering and collective action, esp in the hovel scene but also in that tableau with Cordelia’s body, may be another way of avoiding the “nothing” at the play’s heart. Those trapdoors keep opening…
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