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King Lear
Cordelia, the youngest daughter of King Liar becomes the talks of the people as she becomes the dream of the Duke of Burgundy and the King of France because her father made her and her two sisters the rulers of the country. How can she deal with that and Will she agree to marry this way?.
19 August 1948, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK
4 May 1959, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
1 March 1948, Wales, UK
21 October 1976, Dublin, Ireland
15 April 1959, Paddington, London, England, UK
24 May 1949, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
10 February 1986, London, England, UK
31 December 1937, Margam, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
16 February 1964, Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
May 29, 2018
What is most fresh but coherent is [director Richard] Eyre's interpretation of the three sisters as women absolutely at the end of their tether.
May 29, 2018
Despite its strength-in-depth cast it ends up as less than the sum of its parts.
May 29, 2018
No doubt conscious of the competition, director Richard Eyre assembled so many galacticos for his bells-and-whistles modern-day-set TV version that at first it was hard to concentrate on anything else.
May 29, 2018
Flawed parenting, ingrate children and family estrangement will never not be relevant, and the modern-day dress gave it the feel of a production at ease with itself.
May 29, 2018
Now 80 himself, the right age, Hopkins is at home in Lear's skin. Shouty, angry, cruel one moment; vulnerable, tender, loving the next - or at the same time. A mesmerising performance.
