Good morning Mrs...... And audience, directors of modern performances of "King Lear" are given the opportunity to foreground certain aspects of the plot, themes, characters and character interaction: highlighting particular values and thereby influencing the meaning and reception of "King Lear" as a text within society. This speech shall demonstrate how the both political drama and Peter brooks have created valuable interpretations of king Lear. While listening to this speech question yourself how have these interpretations enriched our understanding of King Lear and brought new, more relevant in context, meaning to the text.

Peter brooks Film production in 1971 is existentialist in outlook and frequently surrealist in mode and presents a nature that is savagely hostile to human life and its values. The basis of existentialist interpretation is the individuals experience in a hostile or indifferent universe. Brook satisfied these values by focusing on Lear's personal journey and the...