This full text version of King Lear is divided into 40 short scenes or scene segments. Each segment includes the corresponding clip from the Ian McKellen film. Any scene or segment may be linked from ...

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For King Lear, perhaps Shakespeare’s bleakest tragedy, Denver Center Theatre Company artistic director Kent Thompson has the characters argue, fight, rage, torment each other and grieve on an almost ...

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the ...

Is blood thicker than water? Should family always come first? These clichés about the importance of family abound, despite the recognition that familial relations are oftentimes hard, if not downright ...

After Ionesco’s absurdist 'Exit the King,' Geoffrey Rush and director Neil Armfield reteam for Shakespeare's straight-faced version in this new Sydney Theatre Company production. By THR Staff Geoffrey ...

In the Northern Stage production of King Lear, sound tells the story of armies clashing, and light makes a storm feel like the world’s end. Those immense theatrical effects are no more powerful than ...