Leir is depressed. Cornwall tries to cheer him up, but Leir hears none of it. Cornwall appeals to an entering Gonorill to help, but Leir suggests that she would rather see him dead than alive.

In the longest scene of the play, Leir and Perillus come to the place of assignation with Ragan, stretch, take out books, and fall asleep. The messenger enters with daggers in either hand, considers ...

In “The Year of Lear,” Mr. Shapiro focuses on 1606, the fertile twelvemonth in which Shakespeare finished not only “Lear” but also “Macbeth” and “Antony and Cleopatra.” It is, like its predecessor, a ...

Roger Leir claimed to have performed surgery on 'alien abductees' Credit: Photo: GETTY/HULTON ARCHIVE Roger Leir, who has died aged 78 or 79, was one of the very few individuals to perform surgical ...

ANGELINE C. “BOBO” LEIR Of Merrillville, passed away Tuesday, December 28, 2004. Survived by sister, Bernie (late Steve) Roncsak of Crown Point; nieces and nephews; many great-nieces; great nephews; ...