Lear, the elderly king of Britain, decides to step down from the throne and potentially divide his kingdom into three parts among his daughters.

Lear is a haughty tyrant at the start of the film who banishes Cordelia for not flattering him. He endures a massive Break the Haughty and is reduced to hiding ...

Set in a heavily militarised alternate version of present-day England, Lear (Anthony Hopkins) decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, Goneril ...

The "Everybody Dies" Ending was such a ridiculous Tear Jerker for its earliest audiences that a different, happier ending was created for productions in ...

Toward the end of his life, he confided to a younger composer that he was "afraid" to write the scene where Lear is alone on the heath.

A page for describing Awesome: King Lear. After pretending to be a possessed homeless man for most of the play, Edgar cures his father Gloucester of being …

The Just Shoot Me! episode "King Lear Jet" is a Whole-Plot Reference to Lear. Jack wins tickets to the play and has Nina and Eliot fighting over them, while ...

She is herself a dowry. The scene where Lear reunites with Cordelia, especially when Cordelia reveals that she is not bitter as Lear had expected her to be.

Fridge Brilliance When I was a kid, I had a 1922 World Book encyclopedia that told the original legend of King Lear - in which Lear, incensed by his …

Kent: He hath no daughters, sir. Lear: Death, traitor! Nothing could have subdued nature to such a lowness but his unkind daughters.