Theatre Trivia Tweet: It’s Not Always Good to be the King

Theatre Trivia Tweet: It’s Not Always Good to be the King

Ian McKellen, as King Lear, will be on Broadway this season with Patrick Stewart in Waiting for Godot and No Man’s Land.

In Shakespeare’s King Lear, Lear is angered in the first scene by one of his daughter’s replies when he asks her how much she loves him. What daughter is it?

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That would be Cordelia, who despite the fact that she loves her father deeply refuses to make a show of it as his other daughters have. His other daughters, Regan and Goneril, are insincere when they express their love for him.