E33 King Lear by William Shakespeare

Description: 
An immersive reading of King Lear by William Shakespeare with reflection on dementia, storms and caregivers.  

Website:
https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ 

Work:

King Lear by William Shakespeare  Act 3 Scene 1 lines 1-20

KENT  Who’s there, besides foul weather?

GENTLEMAN One minded like the weather, most unquietly.

KENT  I know you. Where’s the King?

GENTLEMAN 

Contending with the fretful elements;

Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea

Or swell the curlèd waters ’bove the main,

That things might change or cease; tears his white hair,

Which the impetuous blasts with eyeless rage

Catch in their fury and make nothing of;

Strives in his little world of man to outscorn

The to-and-fro conflicting wind and rain.

This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,

The lion and the belly-pinchèd wolf

Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs

And bids what will take all.

KENT  But who is with him?

GENTLEMAN 

None but the Fool, who labors to outjest

His heart-struck injuries.


References:

King Lear (electronic): https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/king-lear/read/ 

King Lear (print): https://www.tatteredcover.com/book/9781501118111 

NB: Tattered Cover is a local Denver bookstore

 Ottilingam S. The psychiatry of King Lear. Indian J Psychiatry. 2007 Jan;49(1):52-5.