Overview

James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch who insists that his three daughters prove their love for him, only to learn he's exalted the two who seek to destroy him. This live performance recording of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production deftly envisions the bard's haunting tragedy with a fine supporting cast, including Raul Julia, Paul Sorvino and Rene Auberjonois.

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Cast

James Earl Jones

King Lear

Paul Sorvino

Gloucester

Raúl Juliá

Edmund

Rosalind Cash

Goneril

Lee Chamberlin

Cordelia

Ellen Holly

Regan

René Auberjonois

Edgar

Frederick Coffin

Oswald

Tom Aldredge

Fool

George Dzundza

Gentleman

James Harper

First Servant to Cornwall

Anthony Chisholm

Servant to Cornwall