What happens when a leader wants all the power and none of the responsibility? Or when a patriarch succumbs to flattery over a more difficult truth?

If Godard’s filmography was placed on a spectrum from linear to discombobulated, King Lear (1987), his postmodern ...

As I’ve encountered more articles, forums and social media posts devoted to family estrangement, I can’t help but see connections to Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” which I teach to my ...

King Lear (2018) is a British American drama film written and directed by Richard Eyre. Set in a militarized 21st-century London, an aging King leaves his throne. He divides his kingdom among his ...

The rising English comedian Ania Magliano has collected more than a few plaudits over the past three years – “sharp, poised ...

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 ...

Madden-Lunsford is a skilled, sophisticated fiction writer. This novel may be intended for young people but there is nothing ...