

King Lear
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
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- Language
- English
- theater play
- fool
- tragedy
- storm
- king lear
- abdication
- elizabethan england
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Digital / OTTAmazon Prime (rated TV-14)27 Sept 2018
United KingdomGB
- TVBBC Two28 May 2018
- Digital / OTTAmazon Prime28 Nov 2018
CanadaCA
- Digital / OTTAmazon Prime Video27 Sept 2018
GermanyDE
- Digital / OTT12Amazon Prime Video28 Sept 2018
IrelandIE
- TVBBC Two28 May 2019
- Digital / OTTAmazon Prime28 Nov 2019
ItalyIT
- Digital / OTTAmazon Prime Video28 Sept 2018
JapanJP
- Digital / OTTR18+22 Oct 2020
South KoreaKR
- Digital / OTT15TVING22 Sept 2020
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King Lear was released on 28 May 2018.
Audience reviews
1- S7/10
Stephen Campbell
4/18/2019
**_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: they might more easily propose to personate the Satan of Milton upon a stage, or one of Michael Angelo's terrible figur…
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