When King Lear rejects his most devoted daughter Cordelia because she refuses to patronise him with hollow sentiments, he embarks on a journey into humiliation, loneliness and eventually madness. In what is widely regarded as Shakespeare’s greatest creative achievement, a story of family conflict ultimately reveals the bare futility of the human condition.

Director Jonathan Miller has had so many triumphs with this great Shakespearian tragedy that his name is now synonymous with the play. In this renowned version, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Michael Hordern gives a remarkable performance in the lead role.

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• Director: Jonathan Miller
• Produced: Shaun Sutton
• Adapted: William Shakespeare’s original play

Universally acknowledged as the most outstanding tragic play in English drama King Lear first appeared in print in a quarto of 1608. A substantially different text appeared in the 1623 Folio. Modern research confirms an earlier view that the 1608 quarto represents the play as Shakespeare originally wrote it, and the 1623 Folio as he substantially revised it. He revised other plays, too, usually by making many small changes in the dialogue and adding or omitting passages, as in Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, and Othello.

The story of a king who, angry with the failure of his virtuous youngest daughter (Cordelia) to respond as he desires in a love-test, divides his kingdom between her two malevolent sisters (Goneril and Regan), had been often told; Shakespeare would have come across it in Holinshed’s Chronicles and in A Mirror for Magistrates while reading for his plays on English history. It is told also (though briefly) in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queen (Book 2, canto 10), and had been dramatized in a play of unknown authorship – The True Chronicle History of King Leir and his three daughters – published in 1605, but probably written some fifteen years earlier ~ Miller’s stirring production throws a stark and revealing light upon the play’s deeply significant themes.

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