Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating to his three daughters. However, in an act of petty ego stroking, he asks them who amongst them loves him most.

“King Lear” ends with almost all the characters dying, but because this is a play – a fiction, a fantasy – they get to ask for and receive forgiveness before the curtain closes.

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 ...

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.

It’s an adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear performed in the round. The Jamestown Community College Uncommoners production ...

When the National Changgeuk Company of Korea step onto the stage to perform their musical version of Shakespeare’s King Lear at the Barbican, they’ll have twenty tons of water sitting behind ...

Ana Pasa reviews Root Ginger Productions performance of King Lear at the Keble O'Reilly theatre, starring Scott Burke ...

A stage-to-screen film of King Lear, filmed in the round in Manchester. A brutal portrait of a man unravelling - pitted against his daughters, nature and the universe itself. Show more A stage-to ...

Edmund tries to reason why being a bastard should not keep him from what he believes to be rightfully his. Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly amongst his three ...