The tragedy's mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker's Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play's problems I have long had mixed feelings about King Lear. I admire its cosmic grandeur and sublime poetry but balk at its structural unwieldiness and dramatic implausibility: like Coleridge, I find the spectacle of Gloucester's suffering "unendurable" and there is something gra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM on July 8, 2025