QUOTE(Jan Brock @ Aug 5 2009, 07:21 AM)

The greatest ever stage Lear, Paul Scofield, was 42 when he played it. MIchael Gambon played it (very well) for RSC when he was 42 (I think the youngest Lear I have seen). Greg Hicks is 56. I rest my case, M'Lud.
We see Lear as really old, don't we? But could have been just a mid life crisis

and there are tellingly no grand children to mess up the plot so can assume the daughters are just of marriageable age....really no point is going down the how old road - Juliet is 14 etc..anyway, in the words of Olivier, he, Greg Hicks that is, can act, can't he?