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  • Chapter 2 - Lear’s Fool on Film: Peter Brook, Grigori Kozintsev, Akira Kurosawa

  • from Part I - Surviving Lear: Revisiting the Canon
  • Edited by Victoria Bladen, University of Queensland, Sarah Hatchuel, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
  • Book:
    Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear
    Published online:
    10 September 2019
    Print publication:
    26 September 2019, pp 33-46

  • Summary

    The chapter studies three remarkable films of King Lear created in England, Russia and Japan by three directors of international stature: Peter Brook, Grigori Kozintsev and Akira Kurosawa. The films are all set in the past and all are culturally specific. Because the Fool’s role is so central to the substance and structure of Shakespeare’s play, investigating – using a mixture of thick description, cultural appropriation and cinematic formalism – how these three directors reimaged the Fool to speak out from their particular cultures to a global audience provides insight into the ways each reinvents Shakespeare’s bleakest tragedy for the screen.