A powerful study in human loyalty, cruelty and self-sacrifice; produced in 1982, King Lear displays the talents of veteran actors Brenda Blethyn and Michael Horden with director Jonathan Miller. As King Lear's vanity destroys his concept of loyalty, he prefers the self-seeking lies of his deceptive daughters to the honest declarations of his youngest. The play's bleak end leaves him destitute, cradling the body of the faithful Cordelia.

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