King Lear
Director Edwin Sherin
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.
Cast
Franklyn Seales
Servant to Cornwall
Frankie Faison
Captain
Douglass Watson
Kent
James Harper
First Servant to Cornwall
Raúl Juliá
Edmund
Tom Aldredge
Fool
James Earl Jones
King Lear
George Dzundza
Gentleman
Anthony Chisholm
Servant to Cornwall
René Auberjonois
Edgar
Frederick Coffin
Oswald
Paul Sorvino
Gloucester
Lee Chamberlin
Cordelia
Rosalind Cash
Goneril
Ellen Holly
Regan