This writer still remembers reading William Shakespeare’s Hamlet according to the beats of its iambic pentameter when ...

cutting the text and the role of the Fool, adding his own words, and lowering the body count. In his version both King Lear and his daughter Cordelia live, the King grants his daughter the throne ...

If Godard’s filmography was placed on a spectrum from linear to discombobulated, King Lear (1987), his postmodern ...

Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating ... he is rendered an insane hermit attended only by his fool. All the while, the illegitimate son of another Lord ...

A touring production shapes the verses of William Shakespeare to the European form of eurythm and Indian classical music ...

Joe Meagher is a regal and haughty Lear, who manages to fill in as Gloucester in the famous blinding scene. The clever use of ...

Set in the fictional present, King Lear sees Academy Award winner ... is set to play Lear’s loyal jester the Fool. Colin Callender and Sonia Friedman, Executive Producers, say: “It is a ...

In Act 1 of William Shakespeare's "King Lear," the court jester Fool tells Goneril, the scheming eldest daughter of Lear who wants to usurp her father's powers: "May not an ass know when the cart ...

(Just like a wheel, as King Lear dutifully points out ... Juliet’s nurse warns Romeo against leading Juliet into “a fool’s ...

KING LEAR, Shakespeare's masterpiece, is one of the towering works of world literature. In no other play is Shakespeare's tragic vision more terrifyingly clear-and nowhere in his canon does he ...

Goneril talks to King Lear, her father, telling him that he is acting foolish and not attending to his kingdom. She does this with an alterior motive to find a reason to kick him out of his kingdom.

Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly amongst his three daughters - Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Before he bestows these gifts upon his daughters, he gives them a ...