Is blood thicker than water? Should family always come first? These clichés about the importance of family abound, despite ...

The first half of the show, before intermission, was highly entertaining. We were introduced to King Lear (Tommy Liddy) and his three daughters, the traitorous duo Regan (Isabel Olesinski) and Goneril ...

The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and ...

Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of ...

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.

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 ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Christopher Plummer was nominated but did not win.

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

In "King Lear," a tragic story of pride, brutality, blindness and betrayal, King Lear pits his three daughters against each other before they can receive their inheritances. This sets the stage for ...

deceit and the struggle for power sees Lear, an aging king and father, reject the child who truly loves him and is unable to see beyond the lies of his eldest daughters. Lear’s blindness ...