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King Lear, adapted for radio, with Corin Redgrave as Lear and Geraldine James as Goneril. Introduced by Richard Eyre.
Video recording of Robin Phillips’ 1979 staging of King Lear with Peter Ustinov in the title role.
Shakespeare’s play (without the subplot but with an extra story teller) arranged as a sequence for broadcasting and produced by Peter Creswell. With Godfrey Tearle in the title role.
Video recording of Robin Phillips’ 1980 staging of King Lear with Peter Ustinov in the title role.
Feature film based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and scored by Dmitri Shostakovich. Jüri Järvet is Lear. Kozintsev’s Lear ‘goes for the wide anle, depicting how the insanity of one man...brings...
Part two of a radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s tragedy relocated to modern day San Francisco, adapted into modern English verse by Marcus Gardley and directed by Eric Ting. Part of the ‘Play...
Video recording of Lee Breuer’s production of King Lear set in the American South in the 1950s, with the gender roles of the major characters reversed: Lear is a woman with three sons. Videotaped for TOFT...
Documentary. Simon Schama concludes his two-part documentary looking at Shakespeare’s attitudes towards kingship. The programmes focuses on Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Henry V and Richard II. Includes...
German television production of Dieter Dorn’s production of King Lear for the Münchner Kammerspiele directed for television by C. Rainer Ecke. With Rolf Boysen as Lear and Thomas Holtzmann as Gloucester.
A videorecording of the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival production of King Lear directed by Jonathan Miller. Designed by Ralph Funicello. Videotaped for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard...
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