King of Britain...we meet again

This week we are going to learn about King Lear….Oh God! It suddenly reminds me the moment our ELS club decided to perform this play. It was actually a very tough and demanding task for us, the fresh TESL students and more the first batch running this course in that college. At first we take it as a challenged. We had divided the task to all the students and the actors actually started practicing their scripts. For the actors, for sure they do read the text but for those who are not, they just don’t bother about it. But unfortunately, due to certain reasons, we come to a decision to cancel the performance. Sayonara to King Lear…
Now, comes the year 2006. I don’t ever think that again I’ll meet King Lear and this time it needs me to learn it in depth! How lucky I am if I read the play at that time (Actually, I am one of those who don’t take notice on that play). During my mid semester break last week, I take this chance to read King Lear. At the beginning, I can cope with the story’s plot but somehow, I seem lost and lost and lost…It’s quite hard to deal with this play. So I close the book and start to read the summary, hoping that it can help me to understand the play better. And of course, it really helped and makes my task easier. By reading the summary, I manage to comprehend what was the story is all about. It is such a remarkable play with the plot and sub-plot joining together to build the reader’s interest. At this time I am on my way reading that book and hopefully be able to finish it soon…