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 ...

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 ...

Read our review of King Lear at Dublin's Gate Theatre. This take on Shakespeare’s formidable human tragedy features an ...

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 ...

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 ...

A turbulent future beckons unless Lear, king of the Britons ... Emma Dargan-Reid is an intelligent, fearless Cordelia and her final scenes with Hill’s childlike, deranged monarch, drowning ...