Drama in Performance: A Euphonic appreciation of Shakespeare’s King Lear

Drama in performance is better appreciated in terms of sound-meaning, emotive and pragmatic basis as realized by the careful and critical viewership. In this context, viewing BBC Shakespear's King Lear is a unique experience and analyzing the prominent phonemic units in the dialogs and the consonant clusters that altogether yield a good understanding of the purpose of the text. In this light, this paper is an outcome of the critical viewership of drama that leads to a phonoaesthetic study which helps us trace basically three foregrounded words like 'disposition', 'endurance' and 'foul-fiend' bearing deeper meaning. Besides, the languages of Lear, Edgar and Fool in different contexts and forms of madness excel in establishing a feature of register as well as moral philosophy in its texture. While discussing, references from both western and oriental traditions of euphony and dhavani for text analysis have been cited to make the approach impartial.