“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 ...

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 ...

When the UK’s leading black British theatre company, Talawa, was founded in 1986, it was to fix a glaring problem: black ...

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 ...

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter ...

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 ...

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 ...

Read our review of King Lear at Dublin's Gate Theatre. This take on Shakespeare’s formidable human tragedy features an impressive central performance from Conleth Hill ...