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King Lear

6.6 137 mins Drama   1970
Royal Shakespeare Company   Athena Film A/S   Laterna Film  
Director(s): Peter Brook

King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of the kingdom. Daughters Goneril and Regan profess their affection vehemently. Cordelia, who does not respect the process her father has chosen, does not humor him. Lear's perceived rejection from Cordelia leads to her banishment, thus splitting the kingdom between the other two. This hasty decision becomes his fatal error.

Casts of King Lear

Paul Scofield

as King Lear

Irene Worth

as Goneril

Susan Engel

as Regan

Anne-Lise Gabold

as Cordelia

Alan Webb

as Gloucester

Ian Hogg

as Edmund

Tom Fleming

as Kent

Jack MacGowran

as Fool

Cyril Cusack

as Albany

Patrick Magee

as Cornwall

Barry Stanton

as Oswald

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