The fact that Shakespeare is the most influential writer in English literature is simply held to be the truth now.

King Lear blasts Oswald with "your whoreson dog ... We still can't say whether cats or dogs come off more favourably in Shakespeare - we'll leave that decision with you ...

The slate is headlined by Jean-Luc Godard's "King Lear," an essential ... The film uses William Shakespeare's tragedy as a jumping off point for a postmodern riff on art in a world decimated ...

King Lear is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.

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.