There's more to work than life.

There's more to work than life.

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

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 ...

In a recent interview, Othello director Kenny Leon confirmed that there has 'absolutely' been conversations with the actor ...

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.

The film for television is commissioned by the ... Set in the fictional present, King Lear sees Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins as the eponymous ruler, presiding over a totalitarian military ...

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.

The spiritual tumults too sudden and too irrational. None of this has stopped King Lear remaining among the most quotable and psychologically dense of his tragedies. Roxana Silbert hasn’t quite ...

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 turbulent future beckons unless Lear, king of the Britons, can get his affairs appropriately sorted and equally divided between his three daughters before he dies or loses cognisance — or both.