The Fool’s sardonic mockery is not unlike Cordelia’s outspokenness, but while the king is amused by one, he brays with indignation at the other. In the opening scene at court, when Lear ...

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 ...

So much so that when the King of France (Hunter Ringsmith) offers to marry Cordelia moments after Lear repudiates her, the gesture is meant to come as a shock. On this occasion, he and Godwin ...

His ego bruised, Lear’s reaction to Cordelia’s bluntness sets in motion a chain of events no one could foresee. He disinherits Cordelia and marries her off to the King of France without a dowry.

Written between 1603 and 1606, “King Lear” opens with the 80-year-old monarch set to retire and divide his kingdom among his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Each will receive a ...

Shakespeare's "King ... Lear enters with an arm on the shoulder of his Fool for support, his hair an unkempt squall of white fuzz. He has trouble remembering the name of one of Cordelia’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 ...

Antony Sher is a king without reason ... is as familiar as a fairytale: Lear challenges his daughters Regan (Kelly Williams), Goneril (Nia Gwynne) and Cordelia (Mimi Ndiweni) to say how much ...

Lear and his youngest, Cordelia, are reunited; love reigns, then tragedy descends. Show more The 80-year-old King Lear divides his kingdom among his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia ...