Dr. Miranda Fay Thomas explores the history behind William Shakespeare's masterpiece King Lear, currently playing at Dublin's ...

“King Lear” features two storylines ... to the daughter who does the finest job stroking his ego. Lear expects Cordelia, his favorite, to outshine her sisters. But she refuses to play along ...

King Lear is, among other things ... the reconciliation with Cordelia, and his death--with one exception, and this seems a serious flaw. What I have in mind is Lear's very last five lines ...

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 ...

In his version both King Lear and his daughter Cordelia live, the King grants his daughter the throne, which she will rule with Edgar, who is soon to become her husband. Edgar sums up the mood of ...

Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating ... While two daughters eagerly toady to him, his one loving daughter, Cordelia (Anna Calder-Marshall), refuses ...

Set in the fictional present, King Lear sees Academy Award winner ... and rising star Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth, Marcella) as Cordelia, the youngest of Lear’s children. Academy Award and ...