Late in King Lear—Act IV, Scene 5 to be precise—the old King, cast off by his unloving daughters and wandering in a storm, comes upon his faithful servant Gloucester. The earl’s eyes have ...

The world, as Shakespeare describes it in "King Lear," is a "great stage of fools" -- and no one is a bigger fool than prideful Lear himself. The version of this plaintive moan of a tragedy at ...

King Lear. By Lisa Schwarzbaum. Published on November 10, 2011 05:00AM EST. Credit: Joan Marcus. With his slight, wiry figure, his imposing eyebrows, and his omnipresence on syndicated TV as Law ...

Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson returns to the stage after a quarter-century in Shakespeare's most demanding role, 'King Lear,' at an age when the monarch wouldn’t be the only one thinking ...

Lear, the “poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man” on the heath, embodies the bleakest vision of human nature in the history of the theater -- the once-powerful king has been reduced to ...

— King Lear, Act III of “King Lear,” by William Shakespeare. Uzhorod, the troupe’s Ukrainian home city, lies in the shadow of the Carpathian Mountains, close by the border with Hungary.

Kent then describes Lear’s present location and condition, in Dover, and in such despair that he dares not see Cordelia. Kent takes the gentleman to Lear to look after him. Act IV Scene 2 . . .

5. WHEN, in Act II, Scene 4, Lear says of the supposed madman Edgar, “I’d talke a word with this same learned Theban” — may not the Theban have been at once (Edipus, son of the King of ...

King Lear: A Tragedy in 5 Acts written by Andy Stanton and read by Simon Callow. Synopsis. Fun and irreverent, Andy Stanton’s retelling of King Lear centres on Lear and his daughters, ...

Unlike King Lear, Ian McKellen is demonstrating no “infirmity of his age,” with the 79-year-old enjoying a rich vein of theatrical form that shows no sign of letting up. He follows his double ...