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

William-Henry Ireland was an unlikely Shakespeare. He dreamed of being ... the Theatre Royal at Drury Lane had staged King Lear with a happy ending: Cordelia marries Edgar, and Lear, Gloucester ...

If the "White Lotus" season finale's plot seemed a little familiar, there's a reason why. Here's how the show evoked the ...

Shakespeare’s works are, and have always been, profoundly theological — not because they provide answers but because they ...

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

The first half of the show, before intermission, was highly entertaining. We were introduced to King Lear (Tommy Liddy) and ...

The fact that Shakespeare is the most influential writer in English literature is simply held to be the truth now.

The Thailand-set season’s satire of super-wealth is framed through the lens of Buddhism and also William Shakespeare’s great ...

As I’ve encountered more articles, forums and social media posts devoted to family estrangement, I can’t help but see connections to Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” which I teach to my students as a ...