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King Lear
First screened in 1982, this timeless Shakespeare story of an ageing King who decides to divide his Kingdom between his three daughters stars Michael Hordern as Lear, with Brenda Blethyn as Cordelia, Gillian Barge as Goneril, Penelope Wilton as Regan, Michael Kitchen as Edmund and Anton Lesser as Edgar.
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![King Richard the Second](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![As You Like It](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/sTlbp3LlQo6Kv1izLFLqglmX68A.jpg)
![Julius Caesar](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![Measure For Measure](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![Henry VIII](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![King Henry the Fourth, Part I](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![King Henry the Fourth, Part II](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![King Henry the Fifth](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![Twelfth Night, or, What You Will](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![The Tempest](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![Hamlet, Prince of Denmark](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![The Taming of the Shrew](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![The Merchant of Venice](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![All's Well That Ends Well](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![The Winter's Tale](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![Timon of Athens](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![Antony and Cleopatra](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![Othello](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![Troilus and Cressida](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![A Midsummer Night's Dream](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![King Lear](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![The Merry Wives of Windsor](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![King Henry the Sixth, Part I](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![King Henry the Sixth, Part II](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![King Henry the Sixth, Part III](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![The Tragedy of King Richard the Third](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![Cymbeline](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![Macbeth](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n2UfiNr7H9nwwuvSAM3yzj6GcDW.jpg)
![The Comedy of Errors](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![The Two Gentlemen of Verona](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![The Tragedy of Coriolanus](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
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![Much Ado About Nothing](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![Love's Labour's Lost](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)
![Titus Andronicus](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5mbiH3lvugv3V25vhm1E41ZDah.jpg)