... thinking his other son Edgar is betraying him. In 1998, the play was turned into a film. The film "King Lear", directed by Richard Eyre (1998) is an expressionist interpretation of the play King Lear by William Shakespeare The film and play have many main themes including good versus evil and blindness. The composers have used ... see that Goneril and Regan are lying to him. He also doesn't realise that Cordelia is his only true loving and pure daughter. As a result of King Lear's blindness Cordelia is banished and disowned, leaving him vulnerable to his evil daughters. Gloucester is met...

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... and television projects. He was in Eugene O"Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, Love Among the Ruins, and Brideshead Revisited. In 1983 he starred in an acclaimed television staging of King Lear. Towards the end of Olivier's career (1970's), he was repeatedly stricken by illnesses that impaired his strength and good health. Despite his poor health he continued to act, and made ... ...

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