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King Lear

Directed by Richard Eyre

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

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Anthony Hopkins

Lear

Goneril

Regan

Earl of Gloucester

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Writer

Stephen Warbeck

Original Music Composer

Noëlette Buckley

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Director of Photography

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King Lear is about an aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

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Richard Eyre directed King Lear.

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