The story centers around King Lear, an aging monarch who decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters—Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia—based on their expressions of love for him. To test their ...

So it was with Kim Krumm Sorenson’s stunning silks for Lear, Cordelia and Regan. In the Resident Ensemble Players’ stirring production of King Lear, director Jackson Gay strips the ...

At two hours with no intermission, this stunning Branagh-helmed and -starring production is, in the best possible way, “King Lear ... and then Lear cradling a dead Cordelia at the end ...

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?

On impulse, I picked up my old college copy of “King ... he by Cordelia’s death. Seventy-five years after the play was first performed, Nahum Tate rewrote it with a rosier ending. Lear regains ...

According to sources, the actress will essay the role of Cordelia, the daughter of King Lear. Naseeruddin Shah will portray King Lear. The play will open at Mumbai's Prithvi Theatre Festival in ...

replaced on stage by a revised version by Nahum Tate titled The History of King Lear. Tate, an Anglo-Irish poet and lyricist, turned the tragedy into a comedy. Not only does Cordelia not die in ...

Long before Succession’s Logan Roy, there was Shakespeare’s aging monarch King Lear. The character written 400 years ago is famous for his angry outbursts and seemingly rash decisions as he descends ...

Bell Shakespeare’s King Lear, directed by Peter Evans ... When his youngest daughter, Cordelia (Melissa Kahraman), refuses to stroke her father’s ego, the king misconstrues her honesty ...