a farcical modern incarnation of the raging king, will never arrive at self-awareness. Stripped of his entourage and property, Shakespeare’s Lear struggles at the end of Act II to find a threat ...

The question drives both the main plot and a supporting story in Shakespeare’s fiercely nihilistic King ... a splendid act of bodily transformation.) As familial treachery drives Lear into ...

2. Ahnesa Tsvilodub makes up Andrii Khomik before he goes onstage as King Lear. — King Lear in Act III More than a year after the Russian invasion, a British humanitarian aid worker who traveled ...

Do Lear’s daughters love him? What do they bring with them into the space when they gather along with the rest of their father’s court to witness the old king divesting his power and dividing ...

it is hard not to feel disappointment bordering on dismay at his production of “King Lear,” a work considered by many to be the playwright’s mightiest and most savagely moving achievement.

Only one scene in the film mimics the play; perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s Act I, Scene I. Instead, Godard’s King Lear functions more as a visual essay of sorts, using the filmic form to reminisce on ...

Four hundred years after it was written, King Lear resonates as never before in this powerful Stratford Festival production. Stratford Festival is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS ...