Featuring

James Earl Jones
King Lear

Douglass Watson
Kent

Paul Sorvino
Gloucester

Raúl Juliá
Edmund

Rosalind Cash
Goneril

Lee Chamberlin
Cordelia

Ellen Holly
Regan
Robert Stattel
Albany
Robert Lanchester
Cornwall
Lou Quinones
Burgundy

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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.
Directed byEdwin Sherin