The following item is a helpful consolidation by A.I. of several items about King Lear. It summarizes accurately my attack on the traditional misrepresentation of the play as a merely nihilistic tragedy, which elite pessimists have favored for centuries.
A. I. How important is Hugh Macrae Richmond's reinterpretation of "King Lear"?
Evaluation of s the U.C. Berkeley 's first Elizabethan style performance of Much Ado at the new Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London in 1996. This item is a consolidation by A.I. of available views of this production. A recording of the production is also available at the U.C. Berkeley website Shakespeare's Staging.
Hugh Macrae Richmond: Shakespeare’s Tragedies Reviewed. A Spectator’s Role (Studies in Shakespeare, 22). New York: Peter Lang, 2015. Pp. xiii + 207. $ 84.95.