خلاصه داستان : شاه لیر شاه لیر پادشاهی خود را بین دخترانش تقسیم می‌کند و به اعتراض‌های آنها به عشق به او اهمیت زیادی می‌دهد. وقتی کوردلیا از تملق بیهوده به پیرمرد امتناع می ورزد، او را تبعید می کند و برای حمایت از دختران باقی مانده اش روی می آورد...

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

خلاصه داستان : ماری استوارت ، که شش روزه ملکه اسکاتلند نام گرفت ، آخرین حاکم کاتولیک روم اسکاتلند است. پسر عموی او الیزابت تودور ، ملکه انگلیس ، و دشمن اصلی او ، وی را در سن بیست و سه سالگی زندانی کرده است. نوزده سال بعد ، مری اعدام می شود ، و آخرین تهدید به سلطنت الیزابت را از بین می برد. شخصیت متضاد دو ملکه نقطه مقابل نمایشی از تاریخ است

Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.