“King Lear” features two storylines. Each relates to the disintegration of the family. The first plot involves Gloucester and his two sons, Edgar and Edmund. Edmund is a bastard, which means ...

Edmund tries to reason why being a bastard should not keep him from what he believes to be rightfully his. Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly amongst his three ...

King Lear, old and tired ... In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall ...

Actor Edmund Kean reinstated the original tragic ending of King Lear, but although his acting earned praise, these performances did not go down well and he reverted to Tate’s version of the play.

he sent in an audition tape for a production of King Lear that was to be directed by, and would star, Kenneth Branagh. Mylchreest chose a monologue by Edmund, the antagonist in Shakespeare’s ...

Set in the fictional present, King Lear sees Academy Award winner Anthony ... as his illegitimate son Edmund. Emmy Award nominated Jim Carter (Downton Abbey, Cranford) takes the role of the ...

His illegitimate son, Edmund manages to convince him that his ... His son, Edgar leads him to safety where King Lear is also hiding. The English army defeats the French army led by Cordelia ...

Read our review of King Lear at Dublin's Gate Theatre. This take on Shakespeare’s formidable human tragedy features an impressive central performance from Conleth Hill ...