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…
