in which a supposedly real King Leir who ruled England around 800 BC divides his kingdom between two of his daughters, disowning the third for failing his love test, who nevertheless marries the ...

King Lear’s Strangeness in a Commonplace Shell ... The most obvious are the reasons for Lear’s original decision, his arbitrary love test, Gloucester’s gullibility, the unseen development ...

The king has set the stage and assembled an ... She refuses to participate in the love test; in response to Lear’s command, her one-word response (“nothing”) is the opposite of remaining ...

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s season-opening “King Lear ... s love (unlike a kingdom) must be shared equally between her father and husband. Now if you’re Lear, and you don ...

After the ceremony and seriousness of the love test scene, everything is in disarray. Lear still wants to maintain his status as King. It’s a tiny moment of slapstick as servants run in and out ...

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter ...

he gives them a test in which they must profess their love for him. Both Goneril and Regan shower the king with vows of love. Cordelia says she loves Lear as a father and will love her husband as ...