King Lear [(DVD) videorecording] / by William Shakespeare ; New York Shakespeare Festival Production ; produced by Joseph Papp ; directed by Edwin Sherin.
Videodisc release of the production of Thirteen/WNET for Theater in America on PBS, originally broadcast 2/20/74. Host, Hal Holbrook. James Earl Jones (King Lear), Douglass Watson (Kent), Paul Sorvino (Gloucester), Raul Julia (Edmund), Rosalind Cash (Goneril), Lee Chamberlin (Cordelia), Ellen Holly (Regan), and other performers.
Summary:
A New York Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's play in which tragedy occurs when an old king divides his kingdom between his daughters.
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