Goneril talks to King Lear, her father, telling him that he is acting foolish and not attending to his kingdom. She does this with an alterior motive to find a reason to kick him out of his kingdom.

cutting the text and the role of the Fool, adding his own words, and lowering the body count. In his version both King Lear and his daughter Cordelia live, the King grants his daughter the throne ...

Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating ... he is rendered an insane hermit attended only by his fool. All the while, the illegitimate son of another Lord ...

Set in the fictional present, King Lear sees Academy Award winner ... is set to play Lear’s loyal jester the Fool. Colin Callender and Sonia Friedman, Executive Producers, say: “It is a ...

None of this has stopped King Lear remaining among the most quotable ... does not and is driven from the fireplace. The poor old fool is then shifted from sister to sister like the sort of ...