William Shakespeare - 67 - King Lear - Alec Guinness torrent

“No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;
And take upon's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,
In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones,
That ebb and flow by the moon.”


The BBC Radio Collection production from 1974, with Alec Guinness and Cyril Cusack. Guinness is not one of the great Lears (like Olivier or Scofield), but this is still a very fine performance. Kindly seed.

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