"This recording uses the text of King Lear established by Jay Halio for the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of the play (ISBN 0521 33729 1) and also printed in the Cambridge Schools Shakespeare edition (ISBN 0521 46697 0), both published by Cambridge University Press"--Container. Compact discs. Naxos AudioBooks: NA324412 (NA324412, NA324422, NA324432). Paul Scofield (King Lear), Alec McCowen (Earl of Gloucester), Kenneth Branagh (Fool), David Burke (Earl of Kent), Harriet Walter (Gonerill), Emilia Fox (Cordelia), Sara Kestelman (Regan), Richard McCabe (Edgar), Toby Stephens (Edmond), and full cast. Recorded August 2001 at Motivation Sound Studios, London.
Summary:
Presents Shakespeare's tragedy of a foolish and self-indulgent king who learns, late in life and after terrible suffering, the value of self-knowledge.
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