The Essay | Reading the First Folio; Sir Richard Eyre on King Lear

In the first essay in Reading the First Folio, celebrated director Richard Eyre chooses 'Lear's simple, humane, humble, loving, gentle words' from Act 5, Scene 3 of the play.

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