King Lear (Brook, 1971)

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Brook revolutionized forms of producing Shakespeare in the 1960s, and Scofield is quite possibly the finest actor of his generation. Needless to say, the combination adds up to something pretty special in this adaptation of King Lear.

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Article - "Shakespeare on Film - Recommended Double-bills" by Daniel Rosenthal
Thursday 12th April 2007

Shakespearean cinema divides into two broad schools: 'original-text' films such as Olivier's Henry V, which retain Shakespeare's sublime poetry and prose, and 'genre adaptations', whose re-imagined Shakespearean characters speak conventional movie dialogue. This comm...  View article in full

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