After serving in the U.S. Air Force and flying missions during World War II, Lear relocated to Los Angeles where he had odd jobs, including door-to-door salesman, before his wife and the wife of ...

When a parent died, the children might receive some form of inheritance, but this was largely determined by class status, gender and the order of birth. “King Lear” features two storylines.

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 ...

Fun and irreverent, Andy Stanton’s retelling of King Lear centres on Lear ... Cordelia tells him that both he and she have died ‘two minutes ago’, leading Lear to sigh that ‘it’s been ...