Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain are set to star in a new film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear. The project, titled Lear Rex, has just added Game of Thrones ...

And the two collide, in Lear, in the figure of the king. The monarch is ... Their ascendance to the throne, whether achieved through battle or treachery or accident of birth—and the choices ...

Their “King Lear” – a sleek ... Why would a ruler so physically solid suddenly relinquish his throne and divvy up a kingdom he’s proud of? Something else must be affecting his judgment ...

“King Lear” is about lots of things—power ... Nahum Tate rewrote it with a rosier ending. Lear regains his throne; Cordelia lives; she and Edgar marry. For a hundred and fifty years ...

Like the mad king himself, Marcus Gardley’s world ... cheating himself out of his throne. Gardley tries to connect Lear’s fall from power with the historical oppression of the African American ...

First published in the early 17th century, "King Lear" tells the story of a crumbling monarchy and a family torn apart by betrayal, power struggles and hunger for the throne. An ageing and weary ...

Further casting has been announced for the upcoming King Lear movie adaptation starring Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain, with Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage added into the mix. Dinklage ...

Game of Thrones soon attracted comparisons with Shakespeare ... of productions such as the Abbey’s 2013 revival of King Lear and the TV show’s wind-beaten version of medieval Europe.

Gripping at the level of narrative but loose in its grasp of the play’s poetic depth, this is an attractively, if unevenly, packaged version King Lear. A rigorous directorial hand would have been just ...

Their “King Lear” — a sleek ... Why would a ruler so physically solid suddenly relinquish his throne and divvy up a kingdom he’s proud of? Something else must be affecting his judgment ...

First published in the early 17th century, "King Lear" tells the story of a crumbling monarchy and a family torn apart by betrayal, power struggles and hunger for the throne. An ageing and weary Lear ...