Gardah229

t1_j29ocbe wrote

There's a fantastic adaption of King Lear with Ian McKellen and Sylvester McCoy that was my introduction to Shakespeare and I've loved his works ever since.

If you can find this somewhere, it's worth a watch - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lear_(2008_film)

Watching and having a footnoted edition with added context will help massively.

David Crystal is also a proponent ofShakespeare in Original Pronunciation, which can drastically alter context, rhyme schemes and puns that would otherwise go missing.

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t1_j224san wrote

I looked forward to this the moment I heard it was even in the works. Devastating to see where it ended up. It does make me think of the 90's miniseries of The Stand that I've heard was pretty good. I'll have to bump that up the watch list and see if it's worth its salt. Recently found out they released another adaption in the midst of the pandemic that was pretty middling.

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