In the new TNT Western movie King of Texas, rancher John Lear has an ego about as big as the newly formed Republic of Texas. He tells his three daughters they must prove their loyalty to get their inheritance—land, a mighty big prize in the 1840s. His youngest daughter, Claudia, won’t play along, so Lear disowns her, and a Texas tragedy is in the making.
If this plot sounds familiar, congrats, you just passed British Lit 202. King of Texas retells William Shakespeare’s King Lear—only wi
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