That suggestion belies the end of “King Lear.” Per its first published edition, produced in 1608, the play’s title refers to three tragedies: That of Lear, his daughters, and Edgar.

Antony Sher is a king without reason in the Royal Shakespeare Company's disjointed production. The story is as familiar as a fairytale: Lear challenges his daughters Regan (Kelly Williams ...

His mad king is the 68-year-old Olivier-winning actor Sir Antony Sher, a constant presence in the U.K. if less of an American household name than BAM’s recent Lears, Ian McKellen and Frank Langella.

He seized the crown of leading-man status with a crutches-borne Richard III in 1984 that is still talked about to this day. He has excelled – also for the RSC – as Shylock, Leontes, Macbeth ...

Sher kept a record of his performance in Year of the King.Other Shakespearean memoirs have followed, including Year of the Fat Knight about playing Falstaff and, with Gregory Doran, Woza Shakespeare!, ...

The director Peter Brook called Shakespeare’s King Lear “a mountain whose summit has never been reached, the way up strewn with the shattered bodies of earlier visitors.” Now Sir Antony Sher ...

Antony Sher will play King Lear as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's newly-announced season. Artistic director Gregory Doran will direct the production, which will run next summer as a companion ...

Antony Sher in the title role of “King Lear” in 2018. He was closely associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company for more than four decades.

Antony Sher was born in Cape Town on June 14, 1949, ... He starred as Willy Loman in a 2015 production of “Death of a Salesman” and played King Lear the next year, ...

Natalie Simpson, Antony Sher and Antony Byrne in King Lear at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo: Ellie Kurttz Photos: Ellie Kurttz Photos: Ellie Kurttz Photos: Ellie Kurttz ...

Sher kept a record of his performance in Year of the King.Other Shakespearean memoirs have followed, including Year of the Fat Knight about playing Falstaff and, with Gregory Doran, Woza Shakespeare!, ...