King Lear review " as close to definitive as can be
Royal Exchange, ManchesterDon Warrington cuts a powerful and tyrannic Lear, amid a superb cast and suggestions of a forgotten history of black BritainWas there ever a black king during the dark ages of Britain? Shakespeare drew some of the inspiration for King Lear from Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, though we will never know whether he pondered the reference to one Gormund, "King of the Afri…