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.

(JTA) — Norman Lear, the Jewish TV pioneer behind iconic comedies of the 1970s and 1980s that helped bring social commentary and Black characters into the mainstream, has died at 101. Lear’s ...

King Lear is, among other things ... In the concluding distich, Lear dies a happy man. (His words here are not madness; despite the textbooks, Lear has recovered from his dementia before his ...

Read our review of King Lear at Dublin's Gate Theatre. This take on Shakespeare’s formidable human tragedy features an impressive central performance from Conleth Hill ...

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 ...

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 ...