King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old...

fictional character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear. Cordelia is the youngest of King Lear's three daughters and his favorite. After her elderly...

a fictional character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear, named after a King of the Britons recorded by the medieval scribe Geoffrey of Monmouth...

King Lear is a 2018 British-American television film directed by Richard Eyre. An adaptation of the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, cut...

The Yiddish King Lear (Yiddish: דער ייִדישער קעניג ליר Der Yidisher Kenig Lir, also known as The Jewish King Lear) was an 1892 play by Jacob Gordin, and...

fictional character and the main antagonist in William Shakespeare's King Lear. He is the illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester, and the younger...

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, named for the pseudohistorical king of Britannia Leir of Britain. King Lear may also refer to a number of...

The History of King Lear is an adaptation by Nahum Tate of William Shakespeare's King Lear. It first appeared in 1681, some seventy-five years after Shakespeare's...

the 1998 West End production of King Lear. For his television roles he received two Primetime Emmy Awards for King Lear, and the HBO film The Last of the...

King Lear is a 2008 television film based on the William Shakespeare play of the same name, directed by Trevor Nunn. It was broadcast on More4 in the...

King Lear is a 1987 American film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play in the avant-garde style of French New Wave...

Look up Lear, lear, or léar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up leir, leír, léir, or lèir in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lear or Leir may...

in a nationwide production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and King Lear. He played Gonzalo in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest at Sam Wanamaker...

Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear (his favourite Shakespeare play), Coriolanus, Macbeth, and Antony and...

Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. Cox received two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Actor for his roles...

episode in Henry VI, Part 2. The Duke of Albany is Goneril's husband in King Lear. Alcibiades (hist) is a soldier who turns renegade when one of his junior...

their 2022 season. The novel is a modernized retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear and is set on a thousand-acre (four hundred hectares) farm in Iowa owned...

King Lear (1983) is a video production of William Shakespeare's 1606 play of the same name, directed by Michael Elliott. It was broadcast in 1983 in the...

acting in numerous production including The Merry Wives of Windsor (2012), King Lear (2014), Hamlet (2016), and Romeo and Juliet (2016). His breakthrough came...

three modes of madness in King Lear, the King's, the Fool's, and Edgar's, allegorized in the book, with Ahab taking the role of Lear and Pip the roles of both...

was modified and retold by William Shakespeare in his Jacobean tragedy King Lear. Geoffrey of Monmouth identified Leir as the eponymous founder of the...

King Lear is a 1971 British film adaptation of the Shakespeare play directed by Peter Brook and starring Paul Scofield. Filmed in stark black-and-white...

King. First Season (1980/81) Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (Ron Daniels, RST, Aldwych) Second Season (1982/83) Edgar in the Michael Gambon King Lear (Adrian...

He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in English. In...

he played Gloucester in the BBC television production of King Lear, with Ian Holm as Lear. From 2001 to 2003, he played the grumpy and frequently volatile...

1969 at the Nottingham Playhouse. Her early roles included Cordelia in King Lear, both in Nottingham and at The Old Vic. She made her Broadway debut in...

a character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear (1605). She is the eldest of King Lear's three daughters. Along with her sister Regan, Goneril...

(2007) Macbeth (2009), Macbeth Cyrano de Bergerac (2009), Cyrano King Lear (2014), King Lear The Beaux' Stratagem (2014), Archer Richard III (2022), Richard...

Tony-nominated roles include in J.B. (1959), Othello (1982), No Man's Land (1994), King Lear (2004), and Inherit the Wind (2007). Plummer made his film debut in Stage...

Night's Dream (1981), Twelfth Night (1980), Much Ado About Nothing (1984), King Lear (1983), Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989), Strike It Rich (1990), G.B.H...