Collection: BA Acting

This volume presents over 250 comedy routines used by commedia performers in Europe from 1550 to 1750. Includes an introduction, two complete commedia scenarios, and a glossary of commedia characters.

In Bond's play, Lear is a paranoid autocrat, building a wall to keep out imagined "enemies". His daughters Bodice & Fontanelle rebel against him, causing a bloody war. Lear becomes their prisoner & goes on a journey of self-revelation. He is blinded & haunted by the ghost of a Gravedigger's Boy, ...