King Lear divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the third one who loves him. His eldest daughters both then reject him at their homes, so Lear goes mad and wanders through a storm. His banished daughter returns with an army, but they lose the battle and Lear, all his daughters and more, die. ([source]) : https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/shakespeares-plays/king-lear/
Adaptations (12)
King Lear has been adapted 12 times, across film, television film, television series, and miniseries, from 1953 to 2018.
Dokhtar-e zalem-bala1970 · film · dir. Azizolah Bahadori · IMDb ↗A free filmfarsi adaptation of King Lear. In collusion with their husbands, the two older daughters of an old man turn him against their free-spirited younger sister and make him disinherit and disown the free-spirited girl. The youngest sister whose boyfriend was framed for an attempt on her dad's life is kicked out and ends up as a cabaret dancer. After taking over the reins of the old man's properties and household the older daughters and their husband show their true colours and treat the old man with disrespect...
King Lear1970 · film · 140 min · dir. Grigoriy Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro · IMDb ↗IMDb8.067%King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
King Lear1971 · film · 137 min · dir. Peter Brook · IMDb ↗IMDb7.267%King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of the kingdom. Daughters Goneril and Regan profess their affection vehemently. Cordelia, who does not respect the process her father has chosen, does not humor him. Lear's perceived rejection from Cordelia leads to her banishment, thus splitting the kingdom between the other two. This hasty decision becomes his fatal error.
King Lear1983 · television film · 158 min · dir. Michael Elliott · IMDb ↗IMDb7.6An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Ran1985 · film · 160 min · dir. Akira Kurosawa · IMDb ↗Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
Lear Rex? · film · IMDb ↗An aging king splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their affections and driven into exile.
