“King Lear” features two storylines ... Lear expects Cordelia, his favorite, to outshine her sisters. But she refuses to play along and instead calls him out for his vanity.

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.

Fun and irreverent, Andy Stanton’s retelling of King Lear centres on Lear and his daughters ... nastiness of the two wicked sisters and the return of good daughter Cordelia, but there is ...

None of this has stopped King Lear remaining among the most quotable ... The poor old fool is then shifted from sister to sister like the sort of inconvenient elder who insists on making everyone ...

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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