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 ...

Written between 1603 and 1606, “King Lear” opens with the 80-year-old monarch set to retire and divide his kingdom among his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Each will receive a ...

Running under two hours, Amazon's version of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear' is oddly thin and brisk ... Unmarried youngest daughter Cordelia (Florence Pugh), however, declines to indulge ...

Lear promises to reward them generously. Now he turns to his best-loved, youngest daughter Cordelia, who is unmarried but courted by the king of France and the duke of Burgundy. Lear asks her ...

Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly amongst his three daughters - Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Before he bestows these gifts upon his daughters, he gives them a ...

the king’s desperate attempts to detect signs of life in Cordelia in the final scene — and equally compelling in the small ones, such as when Lear, his wits beginning to crack, says in a tone ...

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?