Is blood thicker than water? Should family always come first? These clichés about the importance of family abound, despite ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Nighy has performed two Shakespeare plays professionally. The first was The Taming Of The Shrew at the Gateway Theatre in Chester, and the second was King Lear with Sir Anthony Hopkins at the ...

and he was living here when he wrote some of his greatest tragedies such as 'Hamlet', 'Othello', 'King Lear' and 'Macbeth'. Shakespeare spent the last five years of his life in New Place in Stratford.

In Shakespeare’s time – the English early ... gender and the order of birth. “King Lear” features two storylines. Each relates to the disintegration of the family. In ‘King Lear ...

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 ...

For his final act, Dutt chose to turn to William Shakespeare, reimagining “King Lear” in a contemporary context, which he titled “Aro Ekta Lear” (Another Lear). For his final act ...