King Lear – can the BBC's starry adaptation avoid bard mistakes?

Richard Eyre’s adaptation condenses and cuts up Shakespeare’s great tragedy, but the result could be the perfect Lear for the box-set generation and annoy puristsMost Shakespeare productions on television have been either camera-captures of a previous theatre success or were filmed in a studio that looked like a stage. Sir Anthony Hopkins’ King Lear, though, is, in every sense, specially made for television.The actor retired from theatre in 1989, stultified by nightly repetitio