Discussion Excerpts

Here's a point I made about King Lear on March 25th.

"It seems like the fool is a more central character then I previously thought.
He offers an interesting dynamic with king Lear.  As Lear descends into
madness, the Fool seems more and more rational, even saying from his first
appearance how "foolish" Lear was when divvying up his property.  I'm sure that
in practice the Fool is as much comic relief as he is a voice of
reason."

Here is a response by Hyatt Hammad

"The fact that the fool is silly and crude in the begining and later becomes the
rational thinker of the group is very ironic. It really shows that someone can
be a fool in someone's eyes and be a phiolosopher and a voice of reason in
another's eyes. It also makes us question the very idea of sanity. . . is sanity contagious or transferable[?]"


Here are a couple of links for some audiofiles of Shakespearean poetry for your listening pleasure.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audioitem/3974

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmXBs2gk7J8 
(there may be an advertisement before the actual video. If that happens I apologize)