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 what great ...

One by one, in Lear, good and upstanding figures of the king’s court are exiled, dispossessed, tortured, and killed. It becomes most urgent for the Regan-Goneril regime to target specifically ...

LEAR: For you, great king, I would not from your love make such ... (Wind blowing) LEAR: Go you before to Regan with these letters. If your diligence be not speedy, I'll be there afore you.

Lear, King of Britain, has three daughters: Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Intending to divide his kingdom among his daughters according to their affection for him, he asks them to say which loves ...

Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating to his three daughters. However, in an act of petty ego stroking, he asks them who amongst them loves him most.

Set in the fictional present, King Lear sees Academy Award winner Anthony ... stars as his middle daughter Regan, and rising star Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth, Marcella) as Cordelia, the youngest ...

Charles Lamb is responsible for the idea that King Lear cannot be shown ... may be a more difficult role than Lear. Her sisters Goneril and Regan, Madelon Hambro and Emily Levine, are excellent ...

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 ...

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among ... he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take ...