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

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 ...

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.

ISBN 978-0-671-50089-4 Lear's century-old wordplay thrives in this eye-catching book. An ``Old Man'' fashions ``new vestments'' from odd (but organic) material: ``His shirt was made up of no end ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...