... there's heaps of stuff in the resources section for Eyre's production. Lots of people have done it before in supporting KL as a 'domestic tragedy'. Just look at the way the setting in the film is always indoors- reflecting confinement and more familial stuff. Cordelia wears red, Lear goes from black clothing in the beginning to white in the end, the clearing of fog and mist in the storm scene reflects his clearing mind and growing perception, the dead bodies on the cart at the end= family united in death. Seating around the table in the beginning = family rather than king and his subjects. King Lear being played by Ian Holm = small stature, threatened by daughters Regan and Gonerill standing on either side of him, stands on table. There's heaps. Just link it to the concept of domestic tragedy though, McFarland's interpretation.
