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King Lear on Video - 1974

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The formidable James Earl Jones reprises his critically-acclaimed King Lear in this television adaptation of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production. Of Jones's performance, The Washington Post wrote, "Jones has the qualities of mind, body, voice and movement which enable him to make us care deeply about the spectacle of an old man brought to grief by his folly. The magnitude Jones project is not a matter of mere physical size, but of largeness of soul."

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Starring:
James Earl Jones

Douglass Watson

Paul Sorvino

Raul Julia

Rosalind Cash

Studio: New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Filmed: 1974 - Released: 1974

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