King Lear is among the most complex and contradictory ... cultural politics and Shakespeare’s art, “Cordelia survives being raped by rampaging soldiers only to rebuild at the end a state ...

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

Kenneth Branagh and Jessica Revell as Lear and Cordelia. Photo ... with the rest of their father’s court to witness the old king divesting his power and dividing up his kingdom?

At two hours with no intermission, this stunning Branagh-helmed and -starring production is, in the best possible way, “King Lear ... and then Lear cradling a dead Cordelia at the end ...

Johan Persson, Courtesy The Shed Kenneth Branagh during rehearsals of King Lear with Hughie O’Donnell (who plays Cornwall), Jessica Revell (Cordelia ... Big works of art take long gestation ...

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 ...

to make an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, written by and starring Norman Mailer, then perhaps the most famous writer in America. Mailer’s daughter Kate would play Cordelia, the ...

Talking about her equation with her father in Shakespearean terms, Sohini says her father is like the King Lear to her Cordelia ... Babua developed a love for art. When she was shooting ...

the art and the music, and there's also this counterculture, right? The Lost Generation.” Shunte’ Lofton, who plays Hero in “Much Ado About Nothing,” and Cordelia in “King Lear,” said ...