Listen "King Lear, Act 1"
Episode Synopsis
In this first of five podcasts about King Lear, Claire and I examine the play's first act, and talk about love, performance, sincerity, authority, parents and children, gratitude, the fool, comedy, nature, what makes a good king, what the past owes the present (and vice versa), and much else.
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