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King Lear - Week 2: "Unpacking Shakespeare's Punctuation" - The Rehearsal Room

The Working Actor's Journey

Release Date: 02/18/2025

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🏁 In this session, highlights include:

  • Exploring the emotional relationship of Lear and his daughters
  • How punctuation in Shakespeare's text informs performance
  • Discussing the importance of spontaneity in portraying characters

We dive into the scene where Lear and his two daughters quarrel over what how much of an entourage he needs - Act 2, Scene 4.

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😮 THE SCENE

Our group will be working on the following scene:

  • ​Act 2, Scene 4 - Lear quarrels bitterly with her and with Regan

Follow along with the play here.

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🎭 CREATIVE TEAM - with artists in NJ, NY and CA!

More about this group and artist bios: https://workingactorsjourney.com/workshop/king-lear-in-the-rehearsal-room-june-2023

**Originally recorded in June 2023, now released from the archive!

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📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare:

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