![]() ![]() ![]() Stratford Festival HD, 2015, 2 hours 48 minutes. "Directed by Joan Tosoni, Performed by Colm Feore, Maev Beaty, Sara Farb, and Liisa Repo-Martell. "Captured live in Stratford-upon-Avon, this adaptation emphasised the pagan setting, complete with ritual chanting, and cast 24 local Midlands men in the roles of Lear’s followers." He eventually becomes tenderly reconciled to his third daughter, just before tragedy strikes her and then the king. ![]() When he feels he has been treated with disrespect by the two daughters who now have his wealth and power, he becomes furious to the point of madness. King Lear relinquishes his power and land to two of his daughters. First performed about 1805, King Lear is one of the most relentlessly bleak of Shakespeares tragedies. It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. His third daughter gets nothing, because she will not flatter him as her sisters had done. King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Southwest Shakespeare Company proudly presents one of the greatest plays in world drama, The Tragedy of KING LEAR by William Shakespeare. It tells the tale of a king who bequeaths his power and land to two of his three daughters, after they declare their love for him in an extremely fawning and obsequious manner. Starring Tony Award Winning Actress TREZANA BEVERLEY. "King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. ![]()
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