King Lear
In his personal view, Professor Frank Kermode suggests that' one purpose of tragedy may be to make us look steadily at things we prefer not to think about, death, of course, and the way the world works '.
Director SALLY kirkwood Producer VICTOR POOLE
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(Prefaces to Shakespeare, Radio 4, is on ' Kino Lear ' and is the next production in the BBC Television Shakespeare. Both are on Sunday and leatured in colour in the new RADIO TIMES)