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 ...

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 ...

Opinion: Dr. Miranda Fay Thomas explores the history behind - and relevance of - William Shakespeare's masterpiece King Lear ... ending where Lear gets his kingdom back, and Cordelia and Edgar ...

King Lear has been through so many ... has recently been easier to find shows about King Lear (Everyone Is King Lear in His Own Home, The Cordelia Dream, Testament) than a production of the ...