Regan (King Lear) Lear" 1.1.67–74. Later in the play, Lear leaves his kingdom to live with Goneril. She rejects him. After Lear leaves Goneril's house, he asks Regan to take him in. She tells him he has too many servants and knights, just as Goneril had. Unwilling to budge, Regan drives Lear out into the storm. In Act 3, Scene 7, after learning that the Earl of Gloucester has helped Lear escape to Dover, Regan, Goneril, and the Duke of Cornwall discuss what Gloucester's fate should be. While Regan suggests that they "hang him instantly," (3.7. 4), Goneril orders that his eyes be
H. S. Shivaprakash and Girish Karnad's "Taledanda". Shivaprakash won the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi award for this play. His other plays include "Sultan Tipu", "Shakespeare Swapnanauke", "Manteswamy Kathaprasanga", "Madari Madayya", "Madurekanda", "Madhavi", "Matrika", "Makarachandra", "Sati", "Cassandra" and "Maduvehennu". He has also translated Shakespeare's "King Lear" and adapted Federico García Lorca's "The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife" into Kannada under the title "Mallammana Mane Hotlu" and Shakespeare's "Macbeth" under the name "Maranayakana Drishtanta". "Manteswamy Kathaprasanga", a play about a 16th-century Dalit saint was made into a successful stage adaptation by director Suresh Anagalli and produced over 300 shows. It kindled interest in this obscure saint and the