The Tragedy of King Lear (screenplay)
The Tragedy of King Lear is an unpublished screenplay by
Roth told the Independent in February 2000, before Pinter completed the screenplay, "This is a very hefty piece, to say the least, and I'm not interested in a bunch of people standing around a castle talking. … What Harold Pinter will do is rearrange, cut and then turn it from a stage piece into cinema."[1] At the time, Roth was "working with Dixie Linder, the producer of his directorial debut about incest, The War Zone,[2] with whom he formed the company Roth-Linder Productions.[4]
Commenting on how "active" were their plans to film King Lear, Roth's coproducer Dixie Linder told her interviewer, actress Lysette Anthony, in an interview for Vivid Magazine:
"it's so difficult. We've got this amazing A-list cast, and Harold Pinter adapted it. But the problem is no one really wants to do [a film of] Shakespeare at the moment. It's expensive. Everyone says 'Well, you know, it's a tragedy...' In fact my favourite comment on this script was 'it's very downbeat...' And I said, It was a tragedy to begin with!!! I mean did you think we were going to re-write it and make it a comedy?"[4]
Manuscripts and typedrafts for this work and related correspondence pertaining to it are part of
Notes
References
- Anthony, Lysette (25 June 2009). "Vivid Interview: Lunch with a Film Producer". Vivid Magazine. pp. 127–8.
- ISBN 978-0-571-23476-9.
- Gale, Steven H., ed. (2001). The Films of Harold Pinter. Albany: ISBN 978-0-7914-4932-5.
- Gale, Steven H. (2003). Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process. Lexington, KY: ISBN 978-0-8131-2244-1.
- Pinter, Harold (2000). "The Tragedy of King Lear". Retrieved 23 May 2017.
External links
- "The Tragedy of King Lear" in "Films by Harold Pinter" at HaroldPinter.org: The Official Website of the International Playwright Harold Pinter.