King Lear Archives

You know, certain comic book conventions and comic stores could literally put themselves on the map if they did this. Those new projects include a Dog Man/Bunny Vs Monkey take on King Lear, and a kaiju-monster take on Twelfth Night called Twelfth Thing And his formerly black-and-white Prince Of Denmark Street and Midsummer Night's Dream Team,[...]

Credit HBO Succession has told its updated version of King Lear, shown every wrinkle and variant of its themes, explored every avenue the characters could take, and said what it wants to say with its Shakespearean ending That's the point of endings They put the final nail in the coffin They are the final summation, the[...]

What creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong has done is translate the themes of Shakespeare's dramas about kings and kingdoms into a relatable modern-day context. "Succession" still, Image: HBO Screencap Succession Started Out as a Modern King Lear When the pilot of Succession began with a bewildered Logan Roy (Brian Cox) forgetting where he was and peeing in a[...]

Station Eleven is an interesting, lyrical book about human relationships and connections and love in a post-apocalyptic world, albeit with a thin plot.