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As of late, however, accomplishing that has become more of a challenge as Sir, who is already a monstrously self-absorbed ham who cruelly ignores both his wife (Emily Watson), who has sacrificed her own once-promising career in order to play an increasingly age-inappropriate Cordelia to her husbands Lear, and the stage manager (Sarah Lancashire) who clearly dotes on him while leching away at the companys ingenue (Vanessa Kirby), appears to be slipping into what we would nowadays call dementia