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King Lear

6.0(111)20181h 55m3

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

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Released
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Language
English
  • theater play
  • fool
  • tragedy
  • storm
  • king lear
  • abdication
  • elizabethan england

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Director

Richard Eyre

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United Kingdom

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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

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    Stephen Campbell

    4/18/2019

    7/10

    **_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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