Five people were running the country,” a political insider told the authors of the new book Original Sin. “And Joe Biden was ...

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 ...

WHEN, in Act II, Scene 4, Lear says of the supposed madman Edgar, “I’d talke a word with this same learned Theban” — may not the Theban have been at once (Edipus, son of the King of Thebes ...

36 5/8 x 28 1/8 in. (93 x 71.3 cm.), frame: 44 x 35¼ x 2 in ...

The fatal misjudgments of the play’s two fathers, Lear and Gloucester, mirror one another, reverberating poignantly through the moving second act as each one comes to face his foolishness.

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 ...