Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Christopher Plummer was nominated but did not win.

The original theatrical stage production played ... described by the Guardian as 'as close to definitive as can be'. King Lear is a brutal portrait of a man unravelling - pitted against his ...

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.

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.

That movie was King Lear. I knew it had almost nothing to do with Shakespeare’s King Lear through its reputation, but it had ...

The play’s devious political manoeuvrings should have great current resonance but this accomplished production at Dublin’s Gate theatre is timeless to the point of old-fashioned Shocking ...

KING LEAR, Shakespeare's masterpiece, is one of the towering works of world literature. In no other play is Shakespeare's tragic vision more terrifyingly clear-and nowhere in his canon does he ...

King Lear is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.

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 ...

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.