The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and an outbreak of the bubonic plague the following year.

The original Globe Theatre – which staged Shakespeare's plays and where the Bard wrote "Twelfth Night," "King Lear," and several others – opened in 1599 and burned down in 1613. The second ...

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Charles Lamb is responsible for the idea that King Lear cannot be shown on a stage. But the final production of the current Shakespeare-Marlowe Festival at the Loeb last night, offered evidence ...

Set in the fictional present, King Lear sees Academy Award winner Anthony ... as Oswald, and Golden Globe nominee Tobias Menzies (Outlander, The Terror), plays the Duke of Cornwall.

King Lear may or may not be the greatest of Shakspere's plays, but of his great plays it is undoubtedly the most Shaksperian. For if we separate as much as is possible the qualities of Shakspere ...

A stage-to-screen film of King Lear, filmed in the round in Manchester. A brutal portrait of a man unravelling - pitted against his daughters, nature and the universe itself. Show more A stage-to ...