As the English Puritan preacher John Foxe wrote in “The Book of Martyrs,” “Among ... gender and the order of birth. “King Lear” features two storylines. Each relates to the ...

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 ...

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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.

Or when a patriarch succumbs to flattery over a more difficult truth? Shakespeare asks these questions and more in King Lear, his study of political vacuums and family dynamics. The ageing King ...

Goneril talks to King Lear, her father, telling him that he is acting foolish and not attending to his kingdom. She does this with an alterior motive to find a reason to kick him out of his kingdom.