We’ll begin by discussing various expressions of madness in King Lear, including demonic possession, waking dreams, and musical speech. Next, we’ll ask: When and why is Lear mad? How is madness ...

The first 90 minutes of this exceptionally stylish King Lear at the Almeida contain some ... brings her inimitable stylings to the tale of the mad king. She creates a stark, jagged world loosely ...

Or when King Lear looks into the abyss, his madness only expressed by the flow of the water.” Given the geopolitics, I can’t help but wonder if Korean interest in the mad dynastic dictatorship ...

If Godard’s filmography was placed on a spectrum from linear to discombobulated, King Lear (1987), his postmodern ...

all famous for their portrayals of Lear, used Tate’s version. In 1820, a few years before the death of King George III, it was felt that the situation of Shakespeare's mad monarch may have been ...

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Or when a patriarch succumbs to flattery over a more difficult truth? Shakespeare asks these questions and more in King Lear, his study of political vacuums and family dynamics. The ageing King ...

Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating to his three daughters. However, in an act of petty ego stroking, he asks them who amongst them loves him most.

Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly amongst his three daughters - Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Before he bestows these gifts upon his daughters, he gives them a ...

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 ...