In the brutal world of Game of Thrones, survival is not always dependent on brawn, but on brainpower. A single miscalculation can cause even the strongest characters to crumble.

"King Lear" is ... of the noble Gloucester, schemes to usurp his legitimate brother Edgar’s inheritance. Edmund’s treachery and manipulations lead Gloucester to betrayal and blindness, both literal ...

That same year, for example, the Theatre Royal at Drury Lane had staged King Lear with a happy ending: Cordelia marries Edgar, and Lear, Gloucester ... but it wasn’t the fatal blow he had ...

The play centres on an aged King Lear (Will Albu ... The play's ending was perfectly executed. Lear mourns the tragic death of his daughter, Cordelia, while learning that Gloucester and his strongest ...

The assured confidence of the professionals working together, especially in scenes where Lear is mothered comfortingly by Cole’s Fool and later when the two old men, the deranged king and the blinded ...

Caleb Obadiah, Dylan Corbett-Bader, Saffron Coomber, Deborah Alli and Mara Allen (from left) in King Lear. Marc J ... My mind went to Gloucester’s astrological pearl-clutching: “These late ...

If there’s an actor in King Lear who’s attempting to go deep as he drives forward, it’s Kloska. His Gloucester, though conspicuously young — everyone’s young, even Branagh, whose not ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Veterans has boarded sales for an AFM launch on Bernard Rose’s Shakespeare adaptation Lear Rex, starring Al Pacino as tragic monarch King Lear alongside Jessica Chastain as his ...

The first plot involves Gloucester and his two sons ... intentionally or not, is tragic. “King Lear” ends with almost all the characters dying, but because this is a play – a fiction ...

The subplot involving the Earl of Gloucester and his sons, Edgar and the illegitimate Edmund, mirrors Lear's tragic descent, adding layers to the narrative. Shakespeare wrote King Lear around ...