Trump’s war on my colleagues and students helped me understand the play’s political caution, which is not just about bad ...

“King Lear” features two storylines. Each relates to the disintegration of the family. The first plot involves Gloucester and his two sons, Edgar and Edmund. Edmund is a bastard, which means ...

Charles Lamb is responsible for the idea that King Lear cannot be shown on a stage ... Edmund the bastard son of Gloucester. Bramhall dominates the big Loeb stage and plays a cunning, cold ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Christopher Plummer was nominated but did not win.

Set in the fictional present, King Lear sees Academy Award winner Anthony ... takes the role of the Earl of Gloucester, BAFTA Award winner Andrew Scott (Sherlock, The Hollow Crown) as his loyal ...

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.

He draws out many exquisitely moving moments, such as Lear’s heartrending embrace of Goneril — the daughter he is about to curse — and the distraught Gloucester clinging like a lost child to the mad ...

Gloucester sets out to help him but is found for treason and is blinded. His son, Edgar leads him to safety where King Lear is also hiding. The English army defeats the French army led by Cordelia ...

Read our review of King Lear at Dublin's Gate Theatre. This take on Shakespeare’s formidable human tragedy features an impressive central performance from Conleth Hill ...