8.1 / 10
(8 votes)
Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.
United Kingdom
Drama
227 minutes
2018
Jonathan Munby
National Theatre
1925
7.1
1965
7.2
1945
8.1
2019
0.0
1928
7.6
2013
4.2
2016
8.0
1950
8.1
1957
7.9
1991
7.0
2014
0.0
1924
7.4
2019
6.0
2006
5.8
1985
6.2
1954
5.8
2018
7.0
2006
6.6
1972
7.0
2018
0.0