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Radio version of Shakespeare’s tragedy produced by John Richmond. With John Gielgud in the title role, Derek Godfrey as Edmund and Timothy Bateson as the Fool. The music by John Hotchkis is played by a...
Radio version of the play directed and produced by Laurence Foster with Seamus Forde in the title role, Cathryn Brennan as Cordelia and Dan Reardon as Fool. Special effects by Brendan Fitzgerald and Kieran...
Feature film comedy comprising seven sketches raised in the book of the same title by Dr David Reuben. In the first sketch ‘Do Aphrodisiacs Work?', Woody Allen plays a court jester; he recites a parody of...
Educational videotape. Extracts from three key scenes from King Lear examined to explore Lear’s descent into madness. The scenes are: I iii ‘How now, what art thou?'; I v ‘If a man’s brains...'; II...
BBC World Service series discussing Shakespeare’s language and how many of his phrases are in current use. The edition on madness discusses "That way madness lies", ‘there is method in my madness’...
Simon Russell Beale talks to Mark Leipacher about taking on the role of King Lear for the National Theatre. He speaks of how he came to take the role, the politics of the play, reconciliation, the role of...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2004 production of King Lear. Directed by Bill Alexander with Corin Redgrave as Lear.
Documentary. Did Shakespeare create King Lear for the purpose of educating his audience on the issues of ageing, retirement, and ultimately death? A retired English professor and a group of his friends...
Eight-part television drama series for schools, presented by John Westbrook. Episode 7 discusses the character of Feste and the role of the Fool.
Radio play in blank verse by Perry Pontac which answers the question that has plagued theatre-goers and scholars for almost 400 years - ‘what happened next’? The play begins with the Ambassador...
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