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S06E01 - "King Lear"
Aired on Mar 21, 1998, 9:00 PM
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Performance is a UK television anthology series produced by Simon Curtis for the BBC. Twenty-six episodes aired on the BBC from 1991–98, almost all of which were productions of classic and contemporary plays, including Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello, King Lear by William Shakespeare, and The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan.
Episodes (6 Seasons · 26 Episodes)
E1
King Lear
After disinheriting the youngest of his three daughters because she refuses to pander to his desire for flattery, King Lear suffers the torments of rage, humiliation and madness at the hands of his two eldest daughters before arriving at a painful self-knowledge.
Mar 21, 1998
