William Shakespeare borrowed from it for the Gloucester subplot of King Lear ; parts of it were also dramatised by John Day and James Shirley.

In William Shakespeare's play King Lear, ( iv, i, 60 ), mention is made of " Hobbididence, prince of dumbness " in a list of diverse fiends, whose names Shakespeare borrowed from Samuel Harsnett's Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures ( 1603 ).

William Shakespeare borrowed from it for the Gloucester subplot of King Lear ; traces of the work's influence may also be found in Hamlet and The Winter's Tale.

In 1985, Lear sold all his film and television production holdings to Columbia Pictures ( then owned by the Coca-Cola Company ) which acquired Embassy's film and television division ( which included Embassy's in-house television productions and the television rights to the Embassy theatrical library ) for $ 485 million in shares of The Coca-Cola Company.

Lear and his longtime partner Jerry Perenchio split the net proceeds ( about $ 250 mm ).

On June 18, 1985, Columbia acquired Norman Lear and Jerry Perenchio's Embassy Pictures Corporation ( included Embassy Television and Tandem Productions ), mostly for its library of highly successful television series such as All in the Family and The Jeffersons for $ 485 million.

On April 10, 1967, Bill Lear's stock — he held approximately 60 % of the company ( US $ 27, 000, 000 )— was acquired by the Gates Rubber Company of Denver, Colorado, United States, with Lear remaining on the board until April 2, 1969.

In 1931, Lear bought his first aircraft, a Fleet biplane for $ 2, 500 from a woman in Dearborn, Michigan.

In 1982, television producer Norman Lear and his partner Jerry Perenchio bought the studio for $ 25 million, dropping off the name " Avco " and changed the name of their own TV company T. A. T.

June 18, 1985, Norman Lear and Jerry Perenchio sold Embassy Pictures Corporation to Coca-Cola for $ 485 million, but then Coke sold Embassy Pictures to Dino De Laurentiis since De Laurentiis didn't want to release his movies through a major studio anymore.

Lear also contributed $ 27 million in cash for a 25 percent interest in IAC and warrants for an additional 7 percent.

Lear has said it will continue to talk to other interested parties, however, Icahn would receive a $ 100 million fee should another offer be accepted.

Norman Lear & Robert W. McChesney, “ Does Big Media Need to Get Any Bigger ?” Los Angeles Times, 5 August, p. B17.

* The RSC's King Lear ( 18 January – 5 February 2005 ) by William Shakespeare, starring Corin Redgrave

Soprano interpreters of the Composer have included Irmgard Seefried, Teresa Stratas ( 9 appearances: 4 in 1963 – 4 ; 1 in 1970 ; and 4 in the spring of 1994 ), Evelyn Lear ( 4 appearances in March 1970 ), and Maria Ewing ( 8 appearances in 1984 – 5 ).

Moya Marie Olsen Lear ( March 27, 1915 – December 5, 2001 ) was an American businesswoman and the wife of aviation pioneer Bill Lear.

Lear writes that " Even before the publication of the tale in early October 1902, the first 8, 000 copies were sold out.

Bill Grunow of the Grigsby-Grunow-Hinds Company topped that offer when Lear fixed the problem with 60, 000 B-battery eliminators that they had manufactured.

Pulver composed: incidental music, including Shakespeare's King Lear, Sholom Aleichem's 200. 000 and The Man of the Air, Adventures of Benjamin the Third after Mendele Mocher Sforim, Abraham Goldfaden's The Sorceress ( in collaboration with Joseph Achron ), Zalman Shneyer's Freylekhs ( in collaboration with Maximilian Shteynberg ); operettas ( Gulliver, Inside the Big Top, What is her name?

With over 350 screens in 20 countries, this single performance of King Lear was seen by more than 30, 000 people.

* Operator of one of the largest dedicated neonatal / pediatric transport program in the nation, annually triaging more than 3, 000 patients using a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter, chartered Lear jet and other means of transportation.

The most common imbrication between these two categories of mental impairment occurs in the polemic surrounding Edmund from William Shakespeare's King Lear.

Severn also painted such works as Cordelia Watching by the Bed of Lear, Shepherds in the Campagna, Shelley Composing Prometheus Unbound, Isabella and the Pot of Basil, Portia with the Casket, Ariel, Rienzi, The Infant of the Apocalypse Saved from the Dragon, a large altarpiece for the church of San Paolo fuori le Mura at Rome, and many portraits of statesman and aristocrats, including Baron Bunsen and William Gladstone.

Later came The Tempest, King Lear, a funeral march for the final scene in Hamlet, the love scene for Les Troyens ( which, some claim, Berlioz took from The Merchant of Venice ), and Béatrice and Benedict.

King Lear, who is elderly and wants to retire from power, decides to divide his realm among his three daughters, and offers the largest share to the one who loves him best.

Lear is further enraged by Kent's protests, and banishes him from the country.

Kent returns from exile in disguise under the name of Caius, and Lear hires him as a servant.

Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, published 1590, also contains a character named Cordelia, who also dies from hanging, as in King Lear.

The modern text of King Lear derives from three sources: two quartos, published in 1608 ( Q < sub > 1 </ sub >) and 1619 ( Q < sub > 2 </ sub >) respectively, and the version in the First Folio of 1623 ( F < sub > 1 </ sub >).

The situation is now a reversal of parent-child roles, in which Lear ’ s madness is essentially a childlike rage from being deprived of maternal care.

King Lear was politically controversial during the period of George III's madness, and as a result was not performed at all in the two professional theatres of London from 1811 to 1820: but was then the subject of major productions in both, within three months of his death.

The character of Lear in the nineteenth century was often that of a frail old man from the opening scene, but Lears of the twentieth century often began the play as strong men displaying regal authority, including John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit and Donald Sinden.

The only two significant big-screen performances of Shakespeare's text date from the early 1970s: Grigori Kozintsev was working on his Korol Lir at the same time as Peter Brook was filming his King Lear.

Critics who dislike the film particularly draw attention to its bleak nature from its opening: complaining that the world of the play does not deteriorate with Lear's suffering, but commences dark, colourless and wintry, leaving ( in Douglas Brode's words ) " Lear, the land, and us with nowhere to go ".

Francis Ford Coppola deliberately incorporated elements of Lear in his 1990 sequel The Godfather Part III, including Michael Corleone's attempt to retire from crime throwing his domain into anarchy, and most obviously the death of his daughter in his arms.

The play was again adapted to the world of gangsters in Don Boyd's 2001 My Kingdom, a version which differs from all others in commencing with the Lear character, Sandeman, played by Richard Harris, in a loving relationship with his wife.

Cordelia takes its name from the youngest daughter of Lear in William Shakespeare's King Lear.

Two early overtures survive from this period, Goetz de Berlichingen ( 1883 ) and Le Roi Lear ( 1883 ).

( Bill Lear had tried to create an endless-loop wire recorder in the 1940s, but gave up in 1946, even though endless-loop 8 mm film cartridges were already in use for him to copy from.

In the Cousino, Eash, Muntz, and Lear cartridges, tape was pulled from the center of the reel, passed across the opening at one end of the cartridge and wound back onto the outside of the same reel.

Lear touted this as a great improvement, because much more music could be held inside a standard cartridge housing, but in practice this resulted in a slight loss of sound quality and an increase in background noise from the narrower tape tracks.

* English poet Robert Browning composed an epic poem, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came ; the title of which comes from a line in William Shakespeare's play King Lear.

The dramatic reading in the mix towards the end of the song is a few lines of Shakespeare's King Lear ( Act IV, Scene VI ), which were added to the song direct from an AM radio Lennon was fiddling with that happened to be receiving the broadcast of the play on the BBC Third Programme.

The first Blackadder is named after the treacherous Edmond from Shakespeare's King Lear.

After ITMA, Guyler worked in varied roles from BBC Children's Hour to classical parts, including with John Gielgud in King Lear.