Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Olivier’s King Lear

Without doubt the Lear of the century, this performance surpasses the skill of the critics to praise it; its all-star cast and crew have won every award that exists for performance and production. More important, the production makes a taut, compressed, and difficult play into a work that reaches out to modern audiences in its grip on the elemental human emotions—emotions common to ancient Celts and modern Americans, rowdy Elizabethan playgoers and today's Shakespearean scholars. (2 hours 38 minutes)

King Lear......................................Laurence Olivier

Goneril................................................Dorothy Tutin

Regan..........................................................Diana Rigg

Cordelia.............................Anna Calder-Marshall

Cornwall............................................Jeremy Kemp

Kent........................................................Colin Blakely

Gloucester.............................................Leo Mckern

Fool................................................................John Hurt

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Item#: BVL772
Copyright date: ©1983
VHS ISBN 978-0-89113-994-2


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