Charles Lamb is responsible for the idea that King Lear ... Bramhall are Lear's fool, Harry Smith, who seems too bitter, too sharp at first, but who persuades us finally; the Earl of Kent, Yann ...

So it was with Riw Rakkulchon’s massive pyramid-like monolithic boulders of Lear ... of Gloucester is a most chilling moment, made all the more disturbing by her calm detachment. The Earl ...

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

The week that Mahmoud Khalil became a political prisoner of the Trump regime, I was teaching Shakespeare’s King ... Lear, betrayed by ungrateful and conniving daughters, but the Earl of ...

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 ...

King Lear, old and tired ... him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about ...