...art, as the tamperings with it show; it is too hard and stony; it must have love-scenes and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter,...!—as if the living martyrdom that Lear had gone through,—the flaying of his feelings alive,—did not make a fair dismissal from the stage of life...

...art, as the tamperinga with it show : it is too hard and stony ; it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter, she must shine as a lover too. Tate has put his Itook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of the scene, to...

...to Macready in 1838, used Nahum Tate's version, are dark in the mists of time. " Tate," says Lamb, " has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers to draw it about more easily." Of Garrick's Lear we know that it shook Dr. Johnson out of his wits,...

...art, as the tamperings with it show : it is too hard and stony ; it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter,...of the scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easilj. A happy ending! — as if the living martyrdom that Lear had gone through, the flaying of his...

...art, as the tampering! with it show : it is too hard and stony ; it must have love scenes and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter;...scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. . . . Lear is essentially impossible to be represented on a stage. At the same time there are theatrical...

...art, as the tamperings with it shew: it is too hard and stony; it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter,...if the living martyrdom that Lear had gone through, that flaying of his feelings alive, did not make a fair dismissal from the stage of life the only decorous...

...Nahum Tate's adaptation of Lear as 'Tate (having) put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan for... the showmen of the scene to draw the mighty beast about more easily' (Lamb, 1903, 1:107). Writing in 1681 Nahum Tate describes the meaning of Shakespeare's King Lear as...

...interpretation. Charles Lamb, for example, argued that the tragic ending is an artistic necessity: "the living martyrdom that Lear had gone through, the flaying of his feelings alive" make "a fair dismissal from the stage of life the only decorous thing for him." This opinion was quoted...

...observes with sarcasm that the original is too hard and stony; it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter;...lover too. Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of the Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the show-men of the scene, to draw the mighty beast about...

...Shakespeare cannot be acted. . . . The play is beyond all art as the tamperings with it show. . . . Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan...scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. . . . Lear is essentially impossible to be represented on a stage." The idea that it was a poem rather...