SECOND ARTICLE : PLOT AND PERSONAGES. SHAKESPEARE was forty-one years old when he wrote King Lear. Just at the time of life when a well-constituted, healthy man has attained the maturity of his ...

It is tempting to imagine a viewer tuning in by accident at random points in the new BBC/Amazon film of “King Lear,” which sets the classic tragedy in a contemporary world of S.U.V.s on rain ...

And although none of the songs on “Such Sweet Thunder” directly address “King Lear,” you can hear in the tunes that take on “Julius Caesar” and “Othello” the kind of questioning ...

If there’s an actor in King Lear who’s attempting to go deep as ... issue of New York Magazine. Want more stories like this one? Subscribe now to support our journalism and get unlimited ...

“King Lear” has long been the crowning performance for actors who know how to dominate a stage. As a longstanding member of Parliament, Jackson has unique insight into authority. “It’s ...

An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold staging in Tehran infused with ...

From left: Matthew J. Harris, Michael Milligan, Patrick Page and Shirine Babb in “King Lear,” directed by Simon Godwin at Shakespeare Theatre Company. (DJ Corey) Review by Peter Marks Patrick ...

Or, as in King Lear, the words seem thunderbolts, hurled from the heart of a heaven. King Lear, Timon of Athens, seem the works of a god who is compact of earth and pie, of whom it might be said ...

If Godard’s filmography was placed on a spectrum from linear to discombobulated, King Lear (1987), his postmodern interpretation of Shakespeare’s work, would fall somewhere near the middle. In theory, ...

In a notable instance of one behemoth assessing another, the director Peter Brook once called King Lear “a mountain whose summit has never been reached, the way up strewn with the shattered ...