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It is a common reflex to reach for Aristotle’s Poetics to determine what a good tragedy should be. Aristotle says there are good reasons to enjoy a good tragedy, especially if its ergon or telos (its function) works well. This function is to trigger the pleasure (in an audience) of…

This short, snappy work of popular scholarship by Will Tosh, head of research at Shakespeare’s Globe, is a necessary provocation and a highly selective bid to claim our national poet as a queer icon. Fair enough. As Tosh says in his introduction, red-faced heterosexuals have spent centuries explaining away the…

At 53, the actor’s a young Lear, but he delivers a forceful, moving rendition of the doomed monarch

‘Entertainment Tonight’ presents special for the late mega-producer

Spurs manager was Brannagh's guest at a Halloween showing of his production of King Lear

Labels seeking to stop artists re-recording their music is only part of a much wider issue regarding contracts

At two hours with no interval, the actor-director’s production hurtles past at such speed that the depths of the play are too rarely realised

A star with incredible presence, Gambon brought heft and delicacy, mischief and feeling, to the stage and screen

A disco king hits the dancefloor, Beatrice and Benedick’s romcom gets a feminist framing and Lear faces dystopia as the revered rep company returns in full force

Theatre collective Unseemly Women brought King Lear to Prescot's Shakespeare North Playhouse

Fearless, sharply intelligent and sometimes caustic, Glenda Jackson, who has died aged 87, “had a career unmatched by any of her contemporaries”, said Michael Billington in The Guardian. From 1957, she enjoyed huge success on film (she won two Oscars) and on stage; then, in 1992, she gave it all…