…Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of kings of Britain which can be obtained in translation in every man's library. There you find Shakespeare's Lear King Lear with his three daughters and you find at the end the story of Vortigern, the last of the British…

…of Monmouth's History of kings of Britain which can be obtained in translation in every man's library. There you find Shakespeare's Lear King Lear with his three daughters and you find at the end the story of Vortigern, the last of the British Kings who…

…had absolutely nothing to do with the normal Greek Gods of the day. And I thought, if I remember correctly, the god that King Lear calls upon in Shakespeare is again very little connected to the current notion at that time of what the Christian God was.…

…life a whole mass of celtic lore which had been only oral. When you read it you have some pleasant surprises. You find King Lear and his three daughters there. It's an old celtic story and it comes first to us through this. Shakespeare picks it up and…