Lear on Screen (Peter Sinclair)

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Akira Kurosawa’s film RAN is one of the greatest Shakespearean adaptations ever brought to screen. As well as a visual masterpiece, it illuminates how one man’s hubris can have catastrophic effects on nature, family and society. The themes of Lear have become resurgent in recent prestige drama—from The Terror, to Chernobyl, to Succession. What do the themes of Lear and its heirs tell us about a world that is haunted by tragedy?

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