King Lear, his Fool and his army have taken up home at Goneril's estate. Goneril is fed up with all the antics that have taken place. Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

King Lear typically runs to about three hours ... Jessica Revell plays both Fool and Cordelia—and only the program revealing that will make you notice, so different does Revell look in both ...

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 ...

Fair enough: “King Lear” is a sanguinary tale of the ... again the compassion that binds the Fool to Lear in his agony is only dimly felt.) Mr. Branagh, at age 63, is not necessarily young ...

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 ...