Trump’s war on my colleagues and students helped me understand the play’s political caution, which is not just about bad ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

None of this has stopped King Lear remaining among the most quotable ... cast is surely Ryan Hunter as the charismatic, Scottish Edmund. The man relishes the word “bastard” as if it had ...

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 ...

A turbulent future beckons unless Lear, king of the Britons ... In contrast, Glaswegian Ryan Hunter’s swaggering, Scottish Edmund is fluent and fluid, flinging out the “Now, gods, stand ...