Goneril talks to King Lear, her father, telling him that he is acting foolish and not attending to his kingdom. She does this with an alterior motive to find a reason to kick him out of his kingdom.

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 ...

Shakespeare's works were far from sacrosanct. Here’s a popular adaptation of King Lear where almost everyone, except for the real 'baddies', lives happily ever after. Loved by spectators ...

ISBN 978-0-671-50089-4 Lear's century-old wordplay thrives in this eye-catching book. An ``Old Man'' fashions ``new vestments'' from odd (but organic) material: ``His shirt was made up of no end ...

As the English Puritan preacher John Foxe wrote in “The Book of Martyrs,” “Among ... gender and the order of birth. “King Lear” features two storylines. Each relates to the ...

“Private Rites” takes on a life, however troubled, of its own, one that is hindered by its marketing’s insistence on the book’s referentiality. Whereas “King Lear” might have found a ...

Lyn Lear is currently compiling all of Norman Lear's most memorable quotes and philosophies about life for a book that she hopes to publish in the next year. "Norman had written his memoirs [2014 ...