Trump’s war on my colleagues and students helped me understand the play’s political caution, which is not just about bad ...

Charles Lamb is responsible for the idea that King Lear cannot be shown on a stage ... Edmund the bastard son of Gloucester. Bramhall dominates the big Loeb stage and plays a cunning, cold ...

None of this has stopped King Lear remaining among the most quotable ... It may be infantile to expect video-nasty relish in the gouging of Gloucester’s eyes, but something more than the ...

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

Set in the fictional present, King Lear sees Academy Award winner Anthony ... takes the role of the Earl of Gloucester, BAFTA Award winner Andrew Scott (Sherlock, The Hollow Crown) as his loyal ...

Gloucester sets out to help him but is found for treason and is blinded. His son, Edgar leads him to safety where King Lear is also hiding. The English army defeats the French army led by Cordelia ...

Read our review of King Lear at Dublin's Gate Theatre. This take on Shakespeare’s formidable human tragedy features an impressive central performance from Conleth Hill ...

A stage-to-screen film of King Lear, filmed in the round in Manchester. A brutal portrait of a man unravelling - pitted against his daughters, nature and the universe itself. Show more A stage-to ...