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Full-length radio version of King Lear directed by Wilhelm Semmelroth. With Fritz Kortner in the leading role, Klausjürgen Wussow as Edgar and Bernhard Minetti as Fool.
Independent feature film. A prequel to Hamlet, taking place in medieval Denmark twenty-three years before the play and featuring many of the characters from Hamlet with Yorick as the film’s hero.
Audio reading of Acts I-III of the play generally attributed to both Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton, starring Jay O. Sanders in the title role.
A video recording, using a single fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 co-production of King Lear. Directed by Yukio Ninagawa with Nigel Hawthorne as Lear and Sanada Hiroyuki as the Fool.
Audio reading of Acts IV and V of the play generally attributed to both Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton, starring Jay O. Sanders in the title role.
Scenes from the play arranged as a sequence for radio broadcasting by Peter Creswell. With Abraham Sofaer in the title role and William Hutchison as narrator.
A low budget feature-film adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy starring Alexander Barnett, who also directed and edited the film. Also available in a version edited into 15 episodes.
King Lear directed by Michal Docekal in 1998 for the Theatre of Comedy, Prague. Miloslav Mejzlik is Lear.
A comic account, part documentary, part staged performance, of some of the bowlderisations of Shakespeare’s plays in the history of the theatre. Presenter Patrick Barlow talks of a 1681 production of King...
Television version of King Lear directed by Okan Usaler. Cüneyt Gökçer is Lear.