The play recycles many of the themes and ingredients of earlier Shakespeare: magic potions, cross-dressing, the hubris of a Lear-like king, self-discovery in the wilderness.
King, self-appointed chairman of IPC, felt he could do no wrong.
Three months later, on the day after Christmas, the work day at Shoe King Self-Service Super Mart in Bushwick was just about over for the clerk and for Officer Keryc, off-duty and moonlighting as security.
Five years after their first single, the LA trio King self-released their debut album, We Are King, a flawless, hypnotic melding of smooth 80s soul and weightless ambience.
Google Glass caused a privacy storm even though the photo-taking eyewear has yet to be released; Candy Crush Saga became a gaming sensation for its British developer King; self-deleting photo app Snapchat reportedly turned down a $3bn £1.8bnn) offer from Facebook; and what seemed like hundreds of 3D printers, smartwatches and tablets flooded onto the market - many bankrolled by crowdsourced cash.
Plus, he already played that self-serious alt-boy in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird, so working with Wes Anderson the undisputed king of self-serious alt-boys seems only nalt-boys seems
Plus, he already played that self-serious alt-boy in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird, so working with Wes Anderson – the undisputed king of self-serious alt-boys – seems only natural.
The king of self-effacement, is our Gary.
For a start he replaces the king's self-conscious rhetoric with a jagged naturalism.
"I have never taken anything from anybody else," thundered this king of self-reliance, who lives rent-free in his father-in-law's £2m Tudor house.
This spurred the delicious spectacle of Bill Clinton, king of self-pity, suggesting that Obama was whining too much about the tone of the debate.
