King Lear is a 1999 adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name.
The film stars Brian Blessed (who also co-directed the film, along with Tony Rotherham) in the title role.
Apart from Peter Brook's King Lear in 1971, it is the only other feature-length film adaptation to preserve Shakespeare's verse.
Yvonne Griggs, in Shakespeare's King Lear: A close study of the relationship between text and film (2009), characterised it as "a very stilted costume drama".
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