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-- Tuesday, August 26, 2003 --
Why King Lear is Shakespeare's greatest comedy:
1. "Your eldest daughters have fordone themselves, and desperately are dead." 5.3.296-297 --That's pretty much what I want written on my tombstone: She fordid herself and is now desperately dead. How can you be nondesperately dead? Death seems pretty desperate.
2. Edgar: "Sweet marjoram!" 4.6.93
3. First Servant: Introduced for all of thirty seconds then stabbed to death. Best bit part ever.
4. Everybody dies. That's always hilarious.
Stay tuned for King Lear: the one act musical comedy.
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