| Of course I'm concerned about getting it right, but it holds no terrors for me because I have played Lear, and Lear is the most difficult of all. |
| Diane Keaton directs and stars in this patchy comic King Lear about a dying father and his three daughters. |
| Enraged, Lear banishes Cordelia from the kingdom, only to later recognise the error in his judgement. |
| Based on the life and nonsense poems of Edward Lear, the show was nominated for a Total Theatre Award and widely praised by the critics. |
| The Oxford editors first disentangled the two texts under their original printed titles of The History and The Tragedy of King Lear. |
| Gloucester undergoes physical and mental torment because he makes the same mistake that Lear does. |
