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King Lear, George Frederick Bensell. The Tragedy of King Lear, often shortened to King Lear, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between his daughters Goneril and Regan, who pay homage to gain favour, feigning ...
After hearing this story, Pyrocles and Musidorus help to defeat Plexirtus and install Leonatus on the throne, at which point the blind king dies suddenly from an excess of emotion. [16] A sub-plot of William Shakespeare's King Lear takes inspiration from the story of the blind king in Arcadia. The Earl of Gloucester is betrayed by his ...
Gloucester's younger, illegitimate son is an opportunistic, short-sighted character [1] whose ambitions lead him to form a union with Goneril and Regan. The injustice of Edmund's situation fails to justify his subsequent actions, although at the opening of the play when Gloucester explains Edmund's illegitimacy (in his hearing) to Kent, with coarse jokes, the audience can initially feel ...
Ran (Japanese: 乱, lit. ' chaos or tumult ') is a 1985 epic historical action drama film directed, co-written, and edited by Akira Kurosawa.The plot derives from William Shakespeare's King Lear and includes segments based on legends of the daimyō Mōri Motonari.
18th-century depiction of King Lear mourning over his daughter Cordelia. In the essay on King Lear, which he entitled simply "Lear", Hazlitt makes no references to the performances of any actors. In fact, here he fully agrees with Lamb that King Lear, like Hamlet, cannot be adequately presented on stage. No actors, he felt, could do justice to ...
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Cordelia is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear.Cordelia is the youngest of King Lear's three daughters and his favorite. After her elderly father offers her the opportunity to profess her love to him in return for one-third of the land in his kingdom, she replies that she loves him "according to her bond" and she is punished for the majority of the play.
Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker in All in the Family. The best Archie Bunker quotes are courtesy of creator Norman Lear.As a progressive, Lear himself was the opposite of Bunker's "lovable bigot ...