When We Two Parted
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@patricktilton5377

@@tallowengart5156 The 1608 quarto has:
Lear. Right noble Burgundie, when she was deere to vs
We did hold her so, but now her prise is fallen,
Sir there she stands, if ought within that little
Seeming substance, or al of it without displeasure peec'st,
And nothing else may fitly like your grace,
Take her or leaue her.

The First Folio has:
Lear. Right Noble Burgundy,
When she was deare to vs, we did hold her so,
But now her price is fallen : Sir, there she stands,
If ought within that little seeming substance,
Or all of it with our displeasure piec'd,
And nothing more may fitly like your Grace,
Shee's there, and she is yours.



Maybe some later editor changed "peec'st" to "piec'd" then to "pierced" sometime afterwards, but the 1st quarto of 1608 and the 1623 folio have no 'r' between the 'e' and the 'c'. The Riverside Shakespeare I bought for my Shakespeare courses (back in the mid-to-late 1980s) has "piec'd" and the Stratford Town Edition text (copyright 1958) which I own, which has magnificent photo sets of all the plays, has "pieced." There may be editions which have emended the word to "pierced" but such a decision goes counter to what the earliest printed texts have. We'll probably never know what the original Manuscript had -- what the 'Grand Possessors' had to read -- unless by some miracle the original Shakespeare texts are discovered, but my guess is that the Folio text has it right: "piec'd" = "pieced" (where the apostrophe often reduced a two-syllable word ending in -ed to a monosyllable). Having said that, it isn't entirely unreasonable to emend it to "pierced" as that would make sense, too.



All comments from YouTube:

@rociomiranda5684

Olivier was 76 and ailing, and still he could carry a woman, walking and speaking Shakespeare's lines at the same time. Impressive.

@kennethwayne6857

According to something I've read, Larry had a little help from wires in carrying Cordelia, though they did say the wires went slack for a moment or two. Watching carefully, you can see he could barely walk unaided. The man was not well at the time, which makes his accomplishment all the more impressive.

@RavinDave-theOriginal

For my money, there is no greater filmed Shakespeare than this 1983 production of Lear. And "starring Laurence Olivier" is like number #9 on the list of reasons. The fairytale tone, the spot-on interpretation, the minimalist staging... Robert Lindsay's monologues as Edmund induce shivers, Colin Blakely's Kent is superb, John Hurt as the Fool. Just brilliant.

@vinm300

Edmund : "No medieval devil ever bounded on to the stage with a more scandalous self-announcement"

@mik9napkin598

"Not in the stocks, fool."

@markedly1013

Agree!

@artyfhartie2269

The one by Kozinschev? Is better IMO

@captainhaire

You can tell how much they’re enjoying themselves. Each and every one. Having a ball performing one of the densest, deepest, and complex productions in history.

@jafalad

I remember watching this in 1988 when I was reading King Lear for my A Levels at college. And now, 35 years later, I am reading the same text book and watching the same production preparing for a visit to the theatre to see Lear on the stage. As WS intended.
This is an excellent production - so many fine performances. An interesting setting though - pre-Romano Britain.

@samrobertmuik3495

How about that!!! I am currently in a theatre production of King Lear (I am portraying Kent) as we enter our performances this week and finding myself here again and to simply listen to the music of it all as it soothes and “tunes” me so to speak. I am ecstatic to here another Lear is out there!! Enjoy the show!!!

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