The grim truth is that virtue sometimes fails, and many spectators have found King Lear deeply disillusioning. Lear and Edgar both endure terrible suffering in the course of their awakenings. The ...

In the opening scene at court, when Lear ... shock of Cordelia’s death, which usually occurs offstage, presented here with a brutality that amplifies the pathos of the broken king.

Optimist Theatre’s just-opened production of “King Lear” – ninth and ... given their substantial gift of land. Lear loses it when his beloved Cordelia (Malkia Stampley) refuses to play ...

In the centuries after Shakespeare’s death, “Lear” was considered ... Santiago’s commanding Cordelia disappears for a long stretch of “King Lear”: She returns toward the end of the ...

Any director worth his salt who tackles "King Lear" will attempt ... illuminates that focus. He has Lear’s daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, as young girls, playing around a sandpit ...

Cordelia is captured and tragically killed, leaving Lear heartbroken and ultimately leading to his own death from grief. Andy Bond’s portrayal of King Lear is remarkable. He brings to life the ...

“King Lear,” many have said ... “I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia’s death,” Samuel Johnson once confessed, “that I know not whether I ever endured to read again the last ...

Her reunion with Lear is one of the production’s most tender and understated moments. Her death ... Cordelia reminds us that virtue often goes unrecognized until it is too late—and that in ...

“King Lear” is about lots of things—power ... so devastated was he by Cordelia’s death. Seventy-five years after the play was first performed, Nahum Tate rewrote it with a rosier ending.

CANNES, France, May 19 (UPI) -- British actress Keira Knightley reportedly is to play Cordelia in an upcoming film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragic play "King Lear." Knightley has ...