Movie - Performance: King Lear, 1998
- Information from Internet Movie Data Base (TV), directed by Richard Eyre, starring Ian Holm, Barbara Flynn
- Information from PBS
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- The 1997 award-winning Royal National Theatre production restaged for television.
- A talk with Ian Holm about the production.
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Movie - King Lear, 1983
- Information from Internet Movie Data Base (TV), directed by Michael Elliott, starring Laurence Olivier, Anna Calder-Marshall.
- Rating
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- as DVD from Amazon (USA-Region 1)
- Compare scence from two older versions: The first scene shows Lear's awakening and reunion with Cordelia. The following scene begins with Goneril foredoing herself, shows Cordelia's hanging, then the entrance of Lear bearing the dead Cordelia in his arms:
- Peter Brook's version from 1970 (Real 12:13), Lawrence Olivier's version from 1983 (Real 10:17)