While the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon has received mixed reviews since it premiered in 2022, ...

Dr. Miranda Fay Thomas explores the history behind William Shakespeare's masterpiece King Lear, currently playing at Dublin's ...

BBC Radio 4 has announced a host of exciting new commissions coming soon to Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. This includes The Fever, a 90-minute radio adaptation of the critically acclaimed play by Wallace Sh ...

The Edwardians: Age of Elegance is at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, from 11 April to 23 November 2025.

There is something here for everyone – from gripping podcast dramas to classics like King Lear, these new commissions ... Stuarts back on their rightful throne. This five-part series tells ...

The tragedy for the firstborn is that he is left with the anomalous status that puts on him sometimes vast societal and ...

Everyone has their own favourite version of the political power story. It may be Hamlet, King Lear, MacBeth or even Wolf Hall. You might be transfixed by modern boxed sets such as Succession while ...

To paraphrase Shakespeare’s words in King Lear, “He who is firstborn is always ... a monarch’s principal possessions, including the throne. A good example is the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

I also, on one occasion, wept. A few weeks after Vincent’s death, Brigid and I went to see a production of “King Lear” in New York. By the time Lear finished his howling monologue ...

Scott Burke, taking on the main role of Lear, captured quite convincingly both the king’s old and madness through posture and vocal timbre. The stage held a throne made of branches, which was only ...