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Kind World

That Way Madness Lies

Kind World

WBUR

Kindness, Uplifting, Profound, Society & Culture, Stories

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2015

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

When she took her seat for a performance of King Lear one Saturday night, Barb Cone had no idea what enormous significance it would have for her 48 hours later.

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Welcome to kind world stories about the profound effect one act can have on our lives, from

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0:39.1

A couple of weeks after my mother had passed away, my husband and I had tickets to see King Lear.

0:46.0

My name is Barbara Cohn and I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

0:50.0

One of our favorite actors, Peter Donna, was playing Lear.

0:55.0

Towards the end of the play, he's holding his youngest daughter, Kodelea,

0:59.2

her body in his arms.

1:01.4

This young innocent woman is dead. First he can't believe it. He says, see, look, she's still breathing.

1:09.2

And everyone around him is just hanging their heads. I mean everyone can see that she's gone.

1:15.0

He finally starts realizing that there is no life there and he recites these famous lines.

1:25.0

And my poor fool is hanged.

1:28.0

No, no life.

1:31.0

Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at all?

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