The world, as Shakespeare describes it in "King Lear," is a "great stage of fools" -- and no one is a bigger fool than prideful Lear himself. The version of this plaintive moan of a tragedy at ...

How did Shakespeare imagine madness? His obsession with it appears not only in iconic plays (like Hamlet and Macbeth), but also in lesser-known works (Titus Andronicus and The Two Noble Kinsmen).In ...

While King Lear seems to be about the madness of Lear, the play is actually saturated with various kinds of madness. Edmund is deranged in some ways. Kent’s behavior towards Oswald makes no sense.

Read the monologue for the role of Edmund from the script for King Lear by William Shakespeare. Edmund says: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often ...

LEARWIFE By J. R. Thorp. Perhaps you know the story of “King Lear.” The old king, on the verge of madness, decides to split his kingdom among his three daughters, giving the largest share to ...

Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of Shakespeare’s most devastating works. Tt is a production that does ...

King Lear Derek Jacobi's Lear is upsetting not because he scales epic heights but ... Edgar’s descent into the wretchedness of Mad Tom often merely seems like a complement to Lear’s madness.

Lord knows what this Lear might eat, with fava beans and a nice Chianti ... his dignity and what’s left of his sanity—although Mr. Hopkins’s king always has at least one foot in madness. ...

King Lear’s youngest daughter, modest Cordelia, launches full steam into physical combat. Lear, at the height of his madness, slays his devoted Fool. And Lear’s middle daughter murders … ...