Cordelia (King Lear) by Cordelia's wicked sisters, Goneril and Regan, he goes mad. Cordelia returns at the end of the play with the intentions of helping Lear, ultimately reversing her role as daughter to that of mother. But when she arrives, Lear can not even recognize her in his state of madness. Nevertheless, she forgives him for banishing her. By the time Lear finally regains his reason and realizes who Cordelia is, they have little time to talk and reconcile. Edmund arrives and sends them both to prison, where Cordelia is ultimately hanged. In Nahum Tate's "happy-ending" revision "The History of King Lear"
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