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 also inspired Tolkien in LOTR, with Eowyn's fight similarly echoing Lear and other language allusions in the trilogy. Two literary titans of their time, William Shakespeare and J.R.R ...

EXCLUSIVE: William Shakespeare is headed back to the big screen again. Bernard Rose (Immortal Beloved) is writing to direct Lear, Rex…, a new adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear. Al Pacino ...

King Lear, Shakespeare’s epic tragedy ... In 1834 another well-known actor, William Charles Macready, championed a 'restored' version of Shakespeare’s play - a version of the tragedy that ...

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Harrison Ford has received high praise for his turn as Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross in Captain America: Brave New World, ...

and he was living here when he wrote some of his greatest tragedies such as 'Hamlet', 'Othello', 'King Lear' and 'Macbeth'. Shakespeare spent the last five years of his life in New Place in Stratford.

Forget Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth – the Bard saved his sharpest psychological insights and finest poetry for Richard II ...

King Lear, his Fool and his army have taken up home at Goneril's estate. Goneril is fed up with all the antics that have taken place. Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land ...

If Godard’s filmography was placed on a spectrum from linear to discombobulated, King Lear (1987), his postmodern ...