The friendship and professional association lasted for more than fifty years, until the end of Richardson's life. Gielgud's other roles in this season were Lord Trinket in "The Jealous Wife", Richard II again, Antony in "Antony and Cleopatra", Malvolio in "Twelfth Night", Sergius in "Arms and the Man", Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing" – another role for which he became celebrated – and he concluded the season as King Lear. His performance divided opinion. "The Times" commented, "It is a mountain of a part, and at the end of the evening the peak remains unscaled"; in "The Manchester Guardian", however, Brown wrote that Gielgud "is a match for the thunder, and at length takes the Dover road with a broken tranquillity that allowed every word of the King's agony to be clear as well as poignant".