King Lear Modern AU

Picture this: A King Lear retelling set in modern day Ireland. (Dublin and Donegal mainly).

Lear is a South Dublin yoga mummy who runs a pyramid scheme.

Gloucester is a tennis player with a heavy reliance on Facebook.

Goneril loves her Lululemon because she likes to look hot when scheming and Regan has a love for fake tan.

Cordelia is chilling in boarding school in Donegal with her Gaeltacht boyfriend.

Edgar has to disguise himself as an inner city Dublin roadman.

Edmund wants to take over the pyramid scheme.

Kent got fired lol.

This has been a pitch for my story on A03: Which Of You Shall We Say Doth Love Us Most. Three chapters out today.

The Bells and other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by Edmund Dulac

Edmund Dulac (1882-1953), 'Annabel Lee', ''The Bells and Other Poems'' by Edgar Allan Poe, 1912

To the River, from The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edmund Dulac (1912)

things from The Halloween Update that are concerning me more than i already am about Eddie:

his Frankenstein's Monster costume turning his face (and hands. ha, hands, like the hands on a-) half yellow half blue/purple like the clocks & Sally's door. that's fucking me up a little ngl

Eddie tacks "A bit of a moral conundrum-" onto his description of Frankenstein's Monster, who he's costumed as. which seems out of place with the rest of his description. he could've said "bolts" or "white streak in his hair" or another physical trait. nope. Moral Conundrum (one could also describe his costume as "two-faced"...). and the fact that he's dressed specifically as someone who was "brought back from the dead" makes me 👁️👁️. kinda reminds me of a certain set of artworks from Clown's tumblr a while back...

Eddie, despite his whole schtick being "bad memory", was the only one to accurately recognize Sally's costume as pedrolino from the Commedia dell'arte. could be a little 'inside joke', might be something else. i suspect it's something else due to his... ah... Everything.

Illustration by Edmund Dulac (1912) for the poem Alone by Edgar Allan Poe (1829)

making eddie short for edison was such a specific choice for like no reason

Edmund Dulac

A Demon in my View

Illustration for the Edgar Poe's collection "The Bells and Other Poems" 1849

Eddie telling each of his friends groups a different “full name” just for the chaos

Like, to Corroded Coffin Eddie is short for Edmund

To the Party Eddie is short for Edward

To the Fruity Four Eddie is short for Edwin

To his coworkers at the Hideout Eddie is short for Theodore

He doesn’t tell anyone outright though. He just leaves “proof” for them to “find”. This way when the Party and Corroded Coffin are absolutely going at it about what his real name is he can refuse to answer and act all mysterious while enjoying this immensely

Only Wayne knows the truth, which is that his parents literally just named him Eddie, it isn’t short for anything

ELDORADO

Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow,     Had journeyed long,   Singing a song, In search of Eldorado But he grew old— This knight so bold—    And o’er his heart a shadow—    Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength    Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow—    ‘Shadow,’ said he,     ‘Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?’

   ‘Over the Mountains  Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow,     Ride, boldly ride,’  The shade replied,— ‘If you seek for Eldorado!’

Edgar Allan Poe

Illustration by Edmund Dulac

A Not Very PC Feathursday

Author William Edgar Thompson’s use of Southern Black dialect in his self-published book Aunt Chloe and Her Birds, printed for the author by Kingsport Press in Kingsport, Tennessee in 1927, is extremely cringe-worthy, but apparently it was all the rage when it was published. A review of the 1928 second edition observes, 

There is something about the negro dialect that fascinates children . . . nor do the children tire of them after they have ceased to be children. Mr. Thompson has taken this method of presenting his bird stories and has done so most successfully. . . . Mr. Thompson's excellent book should have a wide sale. It is not only interesting reading but educational as well and should do much good in spreading an interest in birds and their protection.

Yikes!

However, the book also includes eight excellent color bird illustrations supplied by the National Association of Audubon Societies, two by naturalist and artist Edmund Joseph Sawyer (1880-1971) and the rest by noted wildlife illustrator Robert Bruce Horsfall (1869 –1948). We could find nothing on Thompson except that he authored this book, and we would be curious to learn how the Audubon Society came to supply the illustrations. Each of the images is sub-captioned with one of Aunt Chloe’s folksy observations. We considered editing them out because we just find them uncomfortable, but instead of censoring, we decided to present them as they appear in their historical context. These quotes are quite tame compared to the dialogue in the book, some of which is unapologetically racist.

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To Helen, illustration for the book “The Bells,” after the poem by Edgar Allen Poe, 1912. Edmund Dulac (French-British, 1882-1953).

Illustration from The City in the Sea for Edgar Allan Poe’s The Bells and Other Poems by Edmund Dulac (1912)

I was just looking for King Lear performances on YouTube and realized that one audio performance ( I think it's from the arkangel studio) that David Tennant played Edgar is actually available on Shakespeare network channel.

So are his performances in the comedy of errors and in Macbeth for BBC radio.

in my eyes the gloucester brothers are a package deal. you cannot like one without the other. edmund may be your fav shakespeare villain but if you don't care for edgar at least a tiny bit.. What Is Wrong With You (joke)