Lear (Conrad Bishop) and the Fool (Elizabeth Fuller) play out the blinding of Gloucester in Independent Eye’s King Lear. (Photo: S.N. Jacobson) In the Independent Eye’s distillation, Lear and the Fool ...

In 1681, Nahum Tate cut him from the play altogether. He is the Fool, King Lear’s close companion in Shakespeare’s bleak tragedy and, begging your pardon Leo Tolstoy, crucial to the story.

Messenger to Cordelia/ 2nd Messenger to Albany King Lear 1990 ...

“Shagging,” “boinking,” “boffing,” and “fuckery” may not be words one conjures up when thinking about Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear, but they have their places in comic novelist Christopher Moore’s ...

Lear's Fool by David Henry Wilson makes its Scottish debut and is staged by Bard in the Botanics. The play looks at what happened to The Fool who mysteriously disappears in King Lear.

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In this second of two episodes, John looks at the loyal but provocative character of the Fool. He also discovers that, since the 17th century, critics including Samuel Johnson have struggled with the ...

Dennis Raveneau portrays King Lear and Emily Ernst is the Fool in Fair Assembly's upcoming production of Shakespeare's familial tragedy.(Mac Welch) If you’re old enough to play King Lear ...

THE IMPOSSIBLE PLAY OF "KING LEAR." Share full article JOHN CORBIN. April 13, 1902 Credit... The New York Times Archives ...