Is the talk of love by the drinkers reclining on cushions on the city's walls informed by the fact that Gabo's books are on every school syllabus, or is their attraction to the big abstract nouns of love, grief, anger, passion, a genuinely Colombian trait?
All the elements for tragedy are present in Freedom: war, rage, grief, jealousy, hubris, vengeance, illicit passion.
The director, Jonathan Miller, seems intent on bringing a little more humor to this bare-bones "Lear" than is customary, but in the process he has neglected to cast actors who could tear through Shakespeare's passion and grief with anything approaching passion and grief of their own.
Except for a few anomalous moments of anger, passion and grief, their emotions range from mild confusion to mild interest to mild discomfort.
(3) Felt reactions or passions or emotions, for example, feeling delight, lust, fear, love, feeling grief, jealousy, regret.
It can transcend the solitary exchange between the individual reader and the poet's words on a page/screen and become an event, especially when the work aptly expresses our collective outrage, passions, fears, or grief.
Born in grief and passion, the whole enterprise was soon plagued by furious discord.
Of his grief and passion, Brown says: "They had feasted with insatiable appetite on the soul.
