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[Kezalicious]

I was wondering what approach people have taken for King Lear.
My english class has done:
-family and psychological drama
-feminist
-existentialism /absurdist

Out of those 3 did you find easier to write about and respond to?

 

[happiness]

I did my HSC last year. I found the family drama and feminist readings to be the easiest, because we studied the Richard Eyre production which is FULL of techniques related to these two readings.

The existentialist/absurdist readings relate to the Brook production the best, of course. But you'd need to do a bit of research on the notions involved in existentialism and also the Theatre of the Absurd. It's very interesting stuff, but if you don't have time, don't touch it.

 

[ShIzZlEy]

our class is focusing on the family and psychological drama, there is alot more elements to focus on then in feminism and existentialism /absurdist

 

[revhead.meg]

our class is doing an (1)elizabethan reading,(2) nihilistic reading and a (2)psychological domestic reading...
any tips to give me a heads up as we havnt yet started?

 

[-pari-]

1) shakesperean
2) new historicist
3) feminist