Title: Lear (play)
Content:  Lear is a 1971 three-act play by the British dramatist Edward Bond. It is a rewrite of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The play was first produced at the Royal Court Theatre in 1971, featuring Harry Andrews in the title role. It was revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 with Bob Peck, and revived again at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, in 2005 with Ian McDiarmid. Bond, a socialist, was attempting to reverse modern trends which focused on the Shakespeare play as an artistic experience, at the expense of more practical elements of social critique. By creating a politically effective piece from a similar story, he was more likely to cause people to question their society and themselves, 
Title: Lear (opera)
Content:  Lear is an opera in two parts with music by the German composer Aribert Reimann, and a libretto by Claus H. Henneberg, based on Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear.
Title: Lear (play)
Content:  ; Farmer - Geoffrey Hinsliff ; Farmer's Wife - Marjorie Yates ; Farmer's Son - Anthony Milner ; Thomas - Alec Heggie ; John - Richard Howard ; Susan - Diana Quick ; Small Man - Ron Pember ; Officer - Gareth Hunt ; A Boy - Ray Barron ; And other soldiers, Workers, Strangers, Court Officials, Guards The English Stage Company presented the play at the Royal Court Theatre, where it opened on 29 September 1971, directed by William Gaskill. The cast was as follows:  Sets designed by John Napier Costumes designed by Deirdre Clancy Lighting by Andy Phillips
Title: Re Lear
Content:   Re Lear (Italian for King Lear) is an Italian operatic libretto in four acts written by Antonio Somma for the Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi. It was based on King Lear, "the Shakespeare play with which Verdi struggled for so many years, but without success". The Re Lear project is widely considered illustrative of Verdi's complex and enduring fascination with Shakespeare. Verdi commissioned the libretto first from Salvadore Cammarano, who died in June 1852 before he could complete it. Then, three years later, while working with Antonio Somma on what was eventually to become Un ballo in maschera, he proposed that Somma read King Lear and he re-read the play himself, then sought Somma's reactions. Their extensive correspondence has been preserved; it thoroughly documents Verdi's oversight and detailed supervision, the result being two completed and still extant versions of the libretto prepared by Somma in 1853 and 1855. However, while the idea of Re Lear remained with Verdi into the 1890s, no music for the opera was ever composed.
Title: Andrew Lear
Content:  Greek literature, and courses on gender and sexuality. Aside from his Classics degrees, Lear has an MA in Creative Writing from City University of New York, where he studied with Cynthia Ozick. His short stories, poems, and translations have appeared in such journals as Persephone, the Southern Humanities Review, and Literary Imagination. He edited Laura Argiri's historical novel The God in Flight, as is acknowledged in the dedication. Lear also performs actively as a baritone and gives lecture/performances about the Jewish and gay composers and librettists of the German pop industry in the Weimar period. Lear's work includes efforts to bring the history of gender and sexuality to a 
Title: Lear (play)
Content: Foreman - Geoffrey Hinsliff ; 1st Workman - Matthew Guinness ; 2nd Workman - Struan Rodger ; 3rd Workman - Ron Pember ; Soldier - Bob Hoskins ; Lear - Harry Andrews ; Bodice - Carmel McSharry ; Fontanelle - Rosemary McHale ; Warrington - Anthony Douse ; Old Counsellor - George Howe ; Engineer - Gareth Hunt ; Firing Squad Officer - William Hoyland ; Bishop - Gareth Hunt ; Duke of North - Eric Allen ; Duke of Cornwall - Alec Heggie ; Soldier A - Bob Hoskins ; The Gravedigger's Boy - Mark McManus ; The Gravedigger's Boy's 
Title: Lear (play)
Content:  David L. Hirst wrote in his book Edward Bond, “it may be that the excessive amount of realistic violence in the play—far greater than in any of Bond’s previous dramas and never equaled in any play since—considerably alienated reviewers and public alike when the play was first performed". Conversely, Ronald Bryden of The New York Times reported in 1974 that Lear had by then become a "standard play in the European repertory" and garnered acclaim from critics, but that Royal Court audiences reacted unfavorably. Richard Scharine dubbed the events of the play "grotesque and difficult to believe." Charles Spencer wrote in The Daily Telegraph, "Unlike 
Title: Lear (opera)
Content:  Reimann wrote the title role specifically for the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who had suggested the subject to the composer as early as 1968. Reimann then received a commission from the Bavarian State Opera in 1975. The world premiere, in a production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle with Fischer-Dieskau in the title role, occurred at the National Theatre Munich on 9 July 1978, with Gerd Albrecht conducting. The production was revived in Munich in 1980. The US premiere, in English translation, was presented by the San Francisco Opera in June 1981, with Thomas Stewart as Lear, under Gerd Albrecht. The Paris premiere took place in November 1982, in a French translation by Antoinette Becker. The UK premiere was presented by English National Opera in 1989; the Swedish premiere took place at the Malmö Opera on 27 April 2013.
Title: Kuningas Lear
Content:  Kuningas Lear (King Lear) is an opera in two acts by Aulis Sallinen, with a libretto by the composer, based on the play by William Shakespeare and premiered in 2000; it was Sallinen's sixth opera.
Title: Lear (play)
Content:  than simply to have an uplifting aesthetic experience. According to one critic, his plays "are not meant merely to entertain but to help to bring about change in society." Also, according to Hilde Klein, "Bond argues that Shakespeare gave an answer to the problems of his particular society, which is not valid for our age." In Bond's play, Lear is a paranoid autocrat, building a wall to keep out imagined "enemies". His daughters Bodice and Fontanelle rebel against him, causing a bloody war. Lear becomes their prisoner and goes on a journey of self-revelation. He is blinded and haunted by the ghost of a Gravedigger's Boy, whose kindness towards the old King led to his murder. Eventually Lear, 

Question: Who is the author of Lear?
Answer: Edward Bond.