His poetry has been described by comedian Stephen Fry as " absolutely immortal — greatly in the tradition of Lear.

In William Shakespeare's play King Lear ( c. 1600 ), when the King learns that his daughter Regan has publicly dishonoured him, he says They could not, would not do't ; ' tis worse than murder: a conventional attitude at that time.

It has been widely adapted for the stage and motion pictures, and the role of Lear has been coveted and played by many of the world's most accomplished actors.

Lear discovers that now that Goneril has power, she no longer respects him.

Albany has developed a conscience-he is disgusted by the sisters ' treatment of Lear, and the mutilation of Gloucester, and denounces Goneril.

Lear, however, has survived-he killed his daughter's murderer and escaped.

Albany urges Lear to resume his throne, but like Gloucester, the trials Lear has been through have finally overwhelmed him, and he dies.

In the theatre, he argues, " to see Lear acted, to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters on a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is painful and disgusting " yet " while we read it, we see not Lear but we are Lear, – we are in his mind, we are sustained by a granduer which baffles the malice of daughters and storms.

Like other Shakespearean tragedies, King Lear has proved amenable to conversion into other theatrical traditions.

A number of women have played male roles in King Lear ; most commonly the Fool, who has been played ( among others ) by Judy Davis and Emma Thompson but also, significantly, Lear himself, played by Marianne Hoppe in 1990 and by Kathryn Hunter in 1996-7.

The first film of King Lear was a five minute German version made around 1905, which has not survived.

The film drew heavily on the ideas of Jan Kott, in particular his observation that King Lear was the precursor of absurdist theatre: in particular, the film has parallels with Beckett's Endgame.

Unlike Shakespeare's Lear, but like Hidetora and Sandeman, the central character of Uli Edel's 2002 American TV adaptation King of Texas, John Lear played by Patrick Stewart, has a back-story centred on his violent rise to power.

His performance as King Lear was lambasted by critics, including Kenneth Tynan, who wrote that Laughton's Nick Bottom "... behaves in a manner that has nothing to do with acting, although it perfectly hits off the demeanor of a rapscallion uncle dressed up to entertain the children at a Christmas party ".

Notable artists he has provided remixes for include Mariah Carey, t. A. T. u., Pet Shop Boys, Tina Turner, New Order, Depeche Mode, Filter, Yoko Ono, Seal, The Killers, Blaqk Audio and Amanda Lear.

While he has won screen acclaim, no-one who saw his ravaged King Lear at Stratford, while still in his early forties, will forget his superb double act with a red-nosed Antony Sher as the Fool sitting on his master's knee like a ventriloquist's doll.

Holm has been nominated for an Emmy Award twice, for a PBS broadcast of a National Theatre production of King Lear, in 1999 ; and for a supporting role in the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells opposite Judi Dench, in 2001.

Lear has attended a South Park writers ' retreat, and served as the officiant at Trey Parker's wedding.

In 1999, President Bill Clinton awarded the National Medal of Arts to Lear, noting that “ Norman Lear has held up a mirror to American society and changed the way we look at it .” Also in 1999, he and Bud Yorkin received the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of excellence and innovation in creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.

The effect of the scene where Lear and Gloucester meet, two tiny figures in rags in the midst of this emptiness, was said ( by the scholar Roger Warren ) to catch " both the human pathos ... and the universal scale ... of the scene.

Shakespeare used this book as a source, pulling words and phrases when writing the play King Lear, mainly spoken by Edgar while he feigns madness and John Milton is said to have been influenced by it when writing L ' Allegro.

" In an interview with Dick Lochte, Robbins said " The airplane manufacturer in The Carpetbaggers was Bill Lear, not Howard Hughes, by the way.

In 2008, Village Roadshow and Concord Music Group, co-owned by television producer Norman Lear, said they completed a merger forming a new company to exploit their film and music assets.

The show's title was the eponymous character's name stated twice, because Lear and the writers believed that everything that was said on a soap opera was said twice.

Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, said of her performance in Mirele Efros, " Liptzin's pride, her humor, her shrewdness, come not from Lithuania, but from Shakespeare ," describing her as "... a Lear ... a queen ..."

" Stephen Thomas Erlewine with Allmusic said that " The brilliance of Van Lear Rose is not just how the two approaches complement each other, but how the record captures the essence of Loretta Lynn's music even as it has flourishes that are distinctly Jack.

The name Tandem Productions was chosen because when launching their company, Yorkin and Lear were said to feel like two men riding uphill on a tandem bicycle.

" Another New York Times article ( September 7, 2007 ) said that Schneider " has become the Norman Lear of children's television.

George Bernard Shaw wrote, " No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear ".

Lear announces he will live alternately with Goneril and Regan, and their husbands, the Dukes of Albany and Cornwall respectively.

Lear ’ s contest of love serves as the binding agreement ; his daughters will get their inheritance provided they care for him, especially Cordelia, whose " kind nursery " he will greatly depend on.

William Shakespeare made use of such an event in King Lear: one of Cordelia's suitors gives up his suit upon hearing that King Lear will give her no dowry.

He is to portray the wizard Radagast, alongside fellow King Lear actor Ian McKellen who will be reprising his role as Gandalf.

Goehr has recently returned to the operatic medium with the opera Promised End, based on Shakespeare's King Lear, which will be performed in 2010 by English Touring Opera.

In William Shakespeare's King Lear, the king says, " Nothing will come of nothing " to his daughter Cordelia, meaning that as long as she says nothing to flatter him, she will receive nothing from him.

Taking the blinding of the Earl of Gloucester in King Lear as inspiration, Lionheart has arranged a contraption containing two red-hot daggers, which are poised to blind the critic should he refuse to recant and whom he will release otherwise.

He also declared, " Nobody will ever write a better tragedy than Lear ".

Norman Lear hired Thicke to produce and head the writing staff of Fernwood 2-Night, a tongue-in-cheek talk show based on characters from Lear's earlier show, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

Norman Lear created the series during the time when conservative talk radio was experiencing its initial upswing in popularity in the United States, particularly in the form of Rush Limbaugh.

Originally produced by Norman Lear in its first season, the series was the first " interactive sitcom " of its kind, wherein the first half of each 30-minute episode presented a vignette dramatizing the events in the lives of the Baxter family, and the second half was an " instant analysis " talk show segment, giving a live studio audience and guests an opportunity to express their opinions about the topic being presented that week.

" His most famous poem, " On the Ning Nang Nong ", was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in 1998 in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poets including Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.

John F. Danby, in his Shakespeare ’ s Doctrine of Nature – A Study of King Lear ( 1949 ), argues that Lear dramatises, among other things, the current meanings of " Nature.

Though the works of other writers were also used, notably Lewis Carroll and Ogden Nash, Lear's works were the main source, and characters like The Yongy Bonghy Bo and The Unmbrageous Umbrella Maker were all Lear creations.

Expresso Bongo, Staircase and Amadeus were filmed with other actors, but Scofield starred in the screen versions of A Man for All Seasons ( 1966 ) and King Lear ( 1971 ).

He also illustrated more than 50 works by other authors, including Samuel Beckett, Edward Lear, John Bellairs, H. G. Wells, Alain-Fournier, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Florence Parry Heide, John Updike, John Ciardi and Felicia Lamport.

On the ideologically opposed side, Norman Lear ’ s liberal organization People for the American Way was formed with the specific intention of opposing the platforms of the Moral Majority and other Christian Right organizations.

Her first opponent happened to be none other than her sister's former rival Lear, who, upon meeting Dora, thought that she was fighting Cora and that Cora was just trying to pull some kind of scam.

Having found success with Richard III, Garrick moved onto a number of other roles including Tate's adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear and Pierre in Otway's Venice Preserv'd as well as comic roles such as Bayes in Buckingham's The Rehearsal ; a total of 18 roles in all in just the first six months of his acting career.

In the 2010-2011 season, it presented Hamlet, Frankenstein and Fela !, as well as partnering to present productions of other companies: Complicite's A Disappearing Number and Donmar Warehouse's King Lear.

In addition to Hamlet, which he played over 500 times in six productions, he gave what some consider definitive performances in The Tempest ( as Prospero ) in four productions ( and in the 1991 film Prospero's Books ), as well as in other roles-Richard II in three productions, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing which he first played in 1930 and revived throughout the 1950s, Macbeth and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream twice, Romeo three times, and King Lear four times ( as well as taking on the part for a final time in a radio broadcast at the age of 90 ).

According to his 2007 programme CV, Warner's other work for the theatre has included The Great Exhibition at Hampstead Theatre ( February 1972 ); I, Claudius at the Queen's Theatre ( July 1972 ); A Feast of Snails at the Lyric Theatre ( February 2002 ); Where There's a Will at the Theatre Royal, Bath ; King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre ( in 2005, see details below ); and also Major Barbara on Broadway.

Lear ’ s fool differs from both Touchstone and Feste as well as from other clowns of his era.

Videotaped live, Lear wanted the studio audience to actually like the performer, with hopes of the two developing a rapport with each other.

While Arthur is the chief subject of the Matter of Britain, other lesser-known legendary history of Great Britain, including the stories of Brutus of Britain, King Cole, King Lear, and Gogmagog, is also included in the Matter of Britain: see Legendary kings of the British.

In this area he was a peer of Orson Welles and William N. Robson, and an inspiration to other later radio / TV writers such as Rod Serling, Gene Roddenberry, Norman Lear, J. Michael Straczynski and Yuri Rasovsky.

He published a number of monographs on birds, illustrated by plates that he produced with the assistance of his wife, Elizabeth Gould and several other artists including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart.

Kemble also played Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and many other roles.

In all the other great Shakespearean characters he was, according to the best critics, inferior to them, least so in Lear ( though he never played Shakespeare's tragic Lear, preferring the happy ending History of King Lear as adapted by Nahum Tate ), Hamlet and Wolsey, and most so in Shylock and Richard III.

It is the center of the automotive industry in the country: the Automobile Dacia automaker is situated in the nearby town of Mioveni, and several other automobile parts manufacturers are located within its urban area ( Dräxlmaier Group, Lear Corporation and Valeo ).

As was the case on other Norman Lear sitcoms, the characters and subject matter in Good Times were a breakthrough for American television.