“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 ...

His son, Edgar leads him to safety where King Lear is also hiding. The English army defeats the French army led by Cordelia in the effort of finding her father, and both Cordelia and Lear are ...

Joe Meagher is a regal and haughty Lear, who manages to fill in as Gloucester in the famous blinding scene. The clever use of ...

In his version both King Lear and his daughter Cordelia live, the King grants his daughter the throne, which she will rule with Edgar, who is soon to become her husband. Edgar sums up the mood of ...

Set in the fictional present, King Lear sees Academy Award winner Anthony ... The Hollow Crown) as his loyal son Edgar and John Macmillan (Hanna, Chewing Gum) as his illegitimate son Edmund.

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.