Name: Great Performances
Genre: Comedy

Great Performances Episode 3.05 King Lear

Great Performances Episode 3.05 King Lear

Episode Premiere

February 20, 1974

Genre

Comedy

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/

Information

Episode Premiere

February 20, 1974

Genre

Comedy

Period

1971 -

Production Co

Distributor

PBS

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/

Cast and Crew

Main Cast

Bray Poor

Additional Cast

Douglass Watson
Paul Sorvino
Raúl Juliá
James Earl Jones
Rosalind Cash

Synopsis

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.