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King Lear (1999 film)
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Wikipedia article
'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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* List of historical drama films
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