Ακούτε Θέατρο; Δευτέρων Ρόλων συνέχεια (06)

Bastards!






Ο Robert Lindsay, ως Edmund, στην τηλεοπτική παραγωγή του Βασιλιά Ληρ με τον Lawrence Olivier (1983).


Ακούστε τον Kenneth Branagh σε ραδιοφωνική παραγωγή του 1993, με την Rennaissance Theatre Company. Ληρ, ο John Gielgud.
Ακούγεται και ο Richard Briers ως Γκλώστερ.



King Lear, Act I, Sc. II

EDMUND
Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound. Wherefore should I
Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
The curiosity of nations to deprive me,
For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines
Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?
When my dimensions are as well compact,
My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us
With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take
More composition and fierce quality
Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,
Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops,
Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well, then,
Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:
Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund
As to the legitimate: fine word,--legitimate!
Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
Enter GLOUCESTER
GLOUCESTER
Kent banish'd thus! and France in choler parted!
And the king gone to-night! subscribed his power!
Confined to exhibition! All this done
Upon the gad! Edmund, how now! what news?
EDMUND
So please your lordship, none.