KIng Lear

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080228.shtml

Not to be missed. BBC Radio 4, "In Our Time" discussion of "King Lear."
I keep coming back to Lear like an obsession. For me, is about love in all its transformations.

Thanks. Interesting stuff.

Anger

A blogger in redroom.com wrote about her anger. And I replied thus. . .

It's refreshing to hear you say you are or were angry at friends, colleagues. It's a taboo in this nice-nice culture to rage. Few admit to being angry except to their closest friends or therapist. People want you to get over it because it's "a waste of time" because it's "beneath you."

You just helped me understand "King Lear" more deeply. (I notice you are reading the Bard.)

Boy, it feels good for me to hear you address anger.

"King Lear"--the rage in the raging storm. Betrayl doesn't get any worse nor anger more naked (literally naked when he tears off his clothes). King Lear's anger makes me weep--just thinking about the scene in the storm makes me weep. And the "Howl," he emits when Cordelia is dead. It is the loudest rage against the gods and the universe.

I inherited an understanding of Lear because my great grandfather suffered as the ancient king did with children throwing him out into the wind and rain.

Familial relationships are the most intense and the demands the heaviest, so when anger errupts, it's volcanic.

This is a link to a post I wrote on redemption or lack of in King Lear.

http://www.redroom.com/blog/belle-yang/lear-is-thank-you-redemption-enough

http://www.redroom.com/blog/belle-yang/king-lear-and-confucianism

Here are some thoughts of mine on "King Lear and Confucianism."

The folk tale: Love as Salt

http://www.redroom.com/blog/belle-yang/lear-love-as-salt