King Lear

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King Lear
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Directed by: Richard Eyre
Overview
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Review (1)
Stephen Campbell (Rated: 7)
A strong adaptation marred by a poor central performance
_The Lear of Shakespeare cannot be acted. The contemptible machinery by which they mimic the storm which he goes out in, is not more inadequate to represent the horrors of the real elements, than any actor can be to represent Lear:...
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