The advantages of being a part of a family are so obvious that losing that affiliation, intentionally or not, is tragic.

King Lear also inspired Tolkien in LOTR, with Eowyn's fight similarly echoing Lear and other language allusions in the trilogy. Two literary titans of their time, William Shakespeare and J.R.R ...

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 ...

Could an infinite number of monkeys, each given an infinite amount of time to peck away at a typewriter (stocked with an ...

Shakespeare's works were far from sacrosanct. Here’s a popular adaptation of King Lear where almost everyone, except for the real 'baddies', lives happily ever after. Loved by spectators ...

In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, the actor, writer, and director ushered in a Golden Era of Shakespeare plays on film the likes of which we haven’t seen since.

Equity actors for roles in KING LEAR (See breakdown). Even as the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival (NDSF) highlights its record of inclusive representation on stage, we have a moral and ...

Fun and irreverent, Andy Stanton’s retelling of King Lear centres on Lear and his daughters, with many secondary characters in Shakespeare’s complex original not making an appearance.

Acclaimed actor Kenneth Branagh steps into the formidable shoes of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, in a new production at The Shed NYC. Read the reviews for this new production of one of ...