Product Details

• Actors: Michael Hordern
• Producers: British Broadcasting Corporation
• Format: VHS, Color
• Number of tapes: 2
• Studio: Library Video Classics Project/BBC
• Run Time: 103 minutes
• ASIN: B0017DLI0A
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #633,492 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Epic in scope, this is a bitter tragedy about misplaced trust, envy, power and filial ingratitude. As King Lear, played by Michael Horndern, shifts slowly from a dictatorial old man to one stripped of wealth and honors and plunged to the brink of madness, Shakespeare probes the depths of the suffering and disaster crated by defects of character and the terrible cost at which such defects are purged.