Performance | King Lear

King Lear

The film version of Shakespeare's King Lear, which was first produced at the National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre, directed by Richard Eyre.

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Licence: ERA Licence required

Content
  • Type: Plays
  • Channel: BBC Two
  • Duration: 2'18'31''
  • Broadcast date: 1998
Usage

UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted

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  • Shakespeare Archive Resource
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King Lear | BBC Two | 2018

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King Lear | BBC Two | 1966

Hancock at the Royal Festival Hall

Comedian Tony Hancock performing in sketches at the Royal Festival Hall, London. In one sketch Hancock appears as Lear with Joe Ritchie as the Fool, both in cod Elizabethan costume (mid-way through the routine they swap roles and then back again). Lear attempts a comic delivery of part of Lear’s speech in Act 3 Scene 2 ‘Blow winds and crack your cheeks’ (Hancock actually announces Act 2 Scene 2).