The Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." King Lear has not one but two ungrateful children, and it's especially galling because he turned over his entire kingdom to them. Paul Scofield is an ancient, imposing shell of a Lear tormented by his too-long life as well as by daughters he calls "unnatural hags." At one point, the king looks his eldest daughter, Goneril (Ireme Worth), straight in the eye and declares, "Thou art a boil, a plague-sore, of embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood." These are the troubles not even the best-trained family counselor could ever hope to resolve.
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Cast
Peter Brook
Director
Paul Scofield
King Lear
Irene Worth
Goneril
Cyril Cusack
Albany
Susan Engel
Regan
Tom Fleming
Kent
Ian Hogg
Edmund
Robert Langdon Lloyd
Edgar
Jack MacGowran
Fool
Patrick Magee
Cornwall
Barry Stanton
Oswald
Alan Webb
Gloucester
Anne-Lise Gabold
Cordelia
Søren Elung Jensen
Duke of Burgundy
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Writer
Peter Brook
Writer
William Shakespeare
Writer
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