| Summary: | Description: Findings from 2001 production of King Lear at The Globe. The documents include details about the cast, costume, music, technical issues and background research for the performance. Includes details like the director telling the company that King Lear 'is the story of a world in transition, and so he wanted to investigate the text poetically rather than historically' and that he saw the Lear world as encompassing '3 Ts'- totalitarian, timeless pastoral, and terrorist. Interesting points are also made about how the character's changes in costume can be used to track the action of the play and how music and sounds can be made to feel 'human'. There is also a useful section which details a discussion between actors about the connection between voice and verse and their experiences with Shakespeare's verse. The research resources used by the company of paintings, books and essays are also mentioned and changes to lines, pronunciation of words and cut lines/speeches are discussed.
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