King Lear

Feb 20, 1974

2h 55m

★ 9.0

Overview

James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch who insists that his three daughters prove their love for him, only to learn he's exalted the two who seek to destroy him. This live performance recording of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production deftly envisions the bard's haunting tragedy with a fine supporting cast, including Raul Julia, Paul Sorvino and Rene Auberjonois.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

Broadway Theatre Archive

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Cast

King Lear

James Earl Jones

Kent

Douglass Watson

Gloucester

Paul Sorvino

Edmund

Raúl Juliá

Goneril

Rosalind Cash

Cordelia

Lee Chamberlin

Regan

Ellen Holly

Albany

Robert Stattel

Cornwall

Robert Lanchester

Burgundy

Lou Quinones

France

Jean-Pierre Stewart

Edgar

René Auberjonois

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