King Lear Speach Assessment on a Director speach showing the various interpretations of King Lear

Good afternoon and welcome cast and crew to the Globe's latest production of King Lear. What is tragedy? The Greek philosopher Aristotle summarised tragedy as a fatal flaw causing an important person to fall from happiness and prosperity in to catastrophe resulting in the hero moving from ignorance to knowledge and rousing a spectrum of emotions from spectators.
In this production of King Lear I wish to underscore this movement from ignorance to knowledge by stressing Lear's psychological journey throughout this play.
Today I wish to discuss what I feel to be the pinnacle of Lear's unbrid…