it's the last thing the great english poet adrian mitchell wrote before he died. and we haven't done itet. and that's pushkin trying to look at russian history very consciously borrowing from shakespeare's histories. i'm looking at russian history round about the same time of shakesare. >> rose: this is the final scene where lear is holding cordelia's dead body. (wailing) howl, howl, howl, oh, you are men of stones, had i your tongues and eyes i'd use them so that heaven's vault should crack. she's gone forever. i know when one is dead and wh one lives. she's dead as earth. lend me a looking glass if that her breath still mist or stain the stone why, then she lives. >> it is the promised end. >> or image of that horror? >> fall and cease. >> this feather stirs, she lives! if it be so, if there's a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever i have felt. >> rose: he's my favorite. >> he's my favorite. >> rose: favorite shakespearean actor or favorite "lear?" >> favorite "lear." that was our production. really enjoyed the arrogance and the vanity in the beginning