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Lear and announces
Benjamin Franklin, voiced by TV producer Norman Lear ( who also served as a creative consultant for this episode ), shows up and announces that he believes the new country must not seem to be a war-monger to the rest of the world, but at the same time, it cannot appear to be weak either.

Lear and will
George Bernard Shaw wrote, " No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear ".
Lear ’ s contest of love serves as the binding agreement ; his daughters will get their inheritance provided they care for him, especially Cordelia, whose " kind nursery " he will greatly depend on.
While he has won screen acclaim, no-one who saw his ravaged King Lear at Stratford, while still in his early forties, will forget his superb double act with a red-nosed Antony Sher as the Fool sitting on his master's knee like a ventriloquist's doll.
William Shakespeare made use of such an event in King Lear: one of Cordelia's suitors gives up his suit upon hearing that King Lear will give her no dowry.
He is to portray the wizard Radagast, alongside fellow King Lear actor Ian McKellen who will be reprising his role as Gandalf.
Goehr has recently returned to the operatic medium with the opera Promised End, based on Shakespeare's King Lear, which will be performed in 2010 by English Touring Opera.
In William Shakespeare's King Lear, the king says, " Nothing will come of nothing " to his daughter Cordelia, meaning that as long as she says nothing to flatter him, she will receive nothing from him.
Taking the blinding of the Earl of Gloucester in King Lear as inspiration, Lionheart has arranged a contraption containing two red-hot daggers, which are poised to blind the critic should he refuse to recant and whom he will release otherwise.
He also declared, " Nobody will ever write a better tragedy than Lear ".
Lear has said it will continue to talk to other interested parties, however, Icahn would receive a $ 100 million fee should another offer be accepted.

Lear and live
The second collaborative broadcast King Lear with Derek Jacobi live from Covent Garden's Donmar Warehouse.
What most of the Lear sitcoms had in common was that they were character-driven, had sets that more resembled stage plays than common sitcom sets, were shot on videotape in place of film, used a live studio audience, and most importantly dealt with the social and political issues of the day.
Videotaped live, Lear wanted the studio audience to actually like the performer, with hopes of the two developing a rapport with each other.
As in other Lear shows of the era, the show was shot on videotape in front of a live audience, giving it a sense of immediacy, and close-ups were often employed during dramatic scenes.
It was named after the poet, author, and artist, Edward Lear, who published many drawings and paintings of live parrots in zoos and collections.
Originally produced by Norman Lear in its first season, the series was the first " interactive sitcom " of its kind, wherein the first half of each 30-minute episode presented a vignette dramatizing the events in the lives of the Baxter family, and the second half was an " instant analysis " talk show segment, giving a live studio audience and guests an opportunity to express their opinions about the topic being presented that week.

Lear and with
* A creature in the nonsense poem of Edward Lear, The Dong with a Luminous Nose
Severn also painted such works as Cordelia Watching by the Bed of Lear, Shepherds in the Campagna, Shelley Composing Prometheus Unbound, Isabella and the Pot of Basil, Portia with the Casket, Ariel, Rienzi, The Infant of the Apocalypse Saved from the Dragon, a large altarpiece for the church of San Paolo fuori le Mura at Rome, and many portraits of statesman and aristocrats, including Baron Bunsen and William Gladstone.
The album artwork imitated the visual style of classic " girlie " and fashion magazines, featuring high-fashion shots of scantily-clad models Amanda Lear, Marilyn Cole and Jerry Hall, each of whom had romances with Ferry during the time of their contributions, as well as model Kari-Ann Muller who appears on the cover of the first Roxy album but who was not otherwise involved with anyone in the band, and who later married Mick Jagger's brother Chris.
Cronin had been playing in a jazz ensemble called " The Strolling Dudes " with jazz trumpet player Rick Braun, Miles Joseph on lead guitar and Graham Lear on drums.
The 1990 release The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken, with Bryan Hitt ( formerly of Wang Chung ) replacing Graham Lear on drums, Dave Amato debuting on lead guitar, and songwriter / keyboardist Jesse Harms, was a commercial disappointment.
* King Lear ( 2007 ), incidental music for a Public Theatre production of the Shakespeare tragedy, composed with orchestrator Michael Starobin.
Nahum Tate as Poet Laureate had rewritten the tragedy of King Lear with a happy ending.
( Verdi had toyed, too, with writing an opera based on King Lear and Arrigo Boito later tried to interest him in Antony and Cleopatra, but neither project was ever brought to fruition.
These include his four major tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, along with Antony & Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar and the lesser-known Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida.
Conversely, Frank Kermode, in the Riverside Shakespeare, considers the publication of Leir to have been a response to performances of Shakespeare's already-written play ; noting a sonnet by William Strachey that may have verbal resemblances with Lear, Kermode concludes that " 1604-5 seems the best compromise ".
Along with the two views of Nature, Lear contains two views of Reason, brought out in Gloucester and Edmund ’ s speeches on astrology ( 1. 2 ).
Therefore, when the play begins with Lear rejecting his daughter, it can be interpreted as him rejecting death ; Lear is unwilling to face the finitude of his being.
In this scene, she causes in Lear a realisation of his finitude, or as Freud put it, she causes him to " make friends with the necessity of dying ".
The play opens with a formal ceremony in which King Lear seemingly divides his kingdom among his daughters according to their avowals of their love for him.
Charles Lamb established the Romantics ' attitude to King Lear in his 1811 essay " On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation " where he says that the play " is essentially impossible to be represented on the stage ", preferring to experience it in the study.
In the theatre, he argues, " to see Lear acted, to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters on a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is painful and disgusting " yet " while we read it, we see not Lear but we are Lear, – we are in his mind, we are sustained by a granduer which baffles the malice of daughters and storms.
Edmund Kean played King Lear with its tragic ending in 1823, but failed and reverted to Tate's crowd-pleaser after only three performances.
But Irving's production clearly evoked strong emotions: one spectator, Gordon Crosse, wrote of the first entrance of Lear, " a striking figure with masses of white hair.
Poel was influenced by a performance of King Lear directed by Jocza Savits at the Hoftheater in Munich in 1890, set on an apron stage with a three-tier Globe-like reconstruction theatre as its backdrop.
At Stratford-upon-Avon in 1962, Peter Brook ( who would later film the play with the same Lear, Paul Scofield ) set the action simply, against a huge, empty white stage.

Lear and Goneril
* Goneril ( sometimes written Gonerill or Gonoril ), eldest daughter of Lear
Goneril and Regan speak privately, revealing that their declarations of love were fake, and they view Lear as an old and foolish man.
Lear discovers that now that Goneril has power, she no longer respects him.
When Lear arrives, he objects, but Regan takes the same line as Goneril.
Albany has developed a conscience-he is disgusted by the sisters ' treatment of Lear, and the mutilation of Gloucester, and denounces Goneril.
" There are two strongly contrasting views of Nature in the play: that of the Lear party ( Lear, Gloucester, Albany, Kent ), exemplifying the philosophy of Bacon and Hooker, and that of the Edmund party ( Edmund, Cornwall, Goneril, Regan ), akin to the views later formulated by Hobbes.
A pivotal moment occurred when the Jingju performer playing Older Daughter ( a conflation of Goneril and Regan ) stabbed the Noh-performed Lear whose " falling pine " deadfall, straight face-forward into the stage, astonished the audience, in what Yong Li Lan describes as a " triumph through the moving power of noh performance at the very moment of his character's defeat ".
Another of her notable roles was as Goneril in an Emmy-winning television production of Shakespeare's King Lear, opposite Laurence Olivier as King Lear and Robert Lang as the Duke of Albany.
Shakespeare's King Lear describes his daughter Goneril as a detested kite, and he also wrote " when the kite builds, look to your lesser linen " in reference to them stealing washing that was hung out to dry during the nesting season.
* William Shakespeare's King Lear includes as a major character the Duke of Albany, who is husband to Lear's daughter, Goneril.
Cash was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on the Public Broadcasting Service production of Go Tell it on the Mountain and in 1973 appeared as Goneril with James Earl Jones ' Lear at the New York Shakespeare Festival.
* King Lear ( 1974 ) ( TV ) .... Goneril
* In William Shakespeare's King Lear, Goneril poisons her sister Regan in their struggle for power.
In September 2011 she played Goneril in a production of King Lear at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Larry is Lear, Ginny is Goneril, Rose is Regan, and Caroline is Cordelia.

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