“King Lear” features two storylines ... to the daughter who does the finest job stroking his ego. Lear expects Cordelia, his favorite, to outshine her sisters. But she refuses to play along ...

Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating ... While two daughters eagerly toady to him, his one loving daughter, Cordelia (Anna Calder-Marshall), refuses ...

King Lear is, among other things ... the reconciliation with Cordelia, and his death--with one exception, and this seems a serious flaw. What I have in mind is Lear's very last five lines ...

The Bristol Shakespeare Society craft a frighteningly powerful and visually immersive performance of King Lear, serving a ...

When the UK’s leading black British theatre company, Talawa, was founded in 1986, it was to fix a glaring problem: black actors were not being given lead roles. “Especially in the classics – ...

over the corpse of Cordelia was pure pathos. In portraying the fall of Lear from king to disillusioned father, to madman, to dying, bereaved old man, Devlin combines the grandeur of the king and ...

In his version both King Lear and his daughter Cordelia live, the King grants his daughter the throne, which she will rule with Edgar, who is soon to become her husband. Edgar sums up the mood of ...

Dr. Miranda Fay Thomas explores the history behind William Shakespeare's masterpiece King Lear, currently playing at Dublin's ...

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 ...