Description |
1 online resource (157 minutes) |
Summary |
An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king - and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity |
Notes |
Title from title screen (viewed March 23, 2023) |
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An HD film based on the Stratford Festival production of King Lear |
Credits |
Designer, Eo Sharp ; lighting designer, Michael Walton ; composer, Keith Thomas ; sound designer, Thomas Ryder Payne |
Cast |
Colm Feore (King Lear), Maev Beaty (Goneril), Evan Buliung (Edgar), Sara Farb (Cordelia), Jonathan Goad (Kent), Brad Hodder (Edmund), Stephen Ouimette (Fool), Liisa Repo-Martell (Regan), Scott Wentworth (Gloucester) |
Event |
Recorded Stratford Festival |
Notes |
In English |
Subject |
Lear, King of England (Legendary character) -- Drama
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SUBJECT |
Lear, King of England (Legendary character) fast (OCoLC)fst00994804 |
Subject |
Kings and rulers -- Drama
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Families -- Drama
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Families.
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Kings and rulers.
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Genre/Form |
Drama.
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Filmed performances.
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Filmed performances.
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Drama.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Tosoni, Joan, film director
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Avrich, Barry, producer
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Cimolino, Antoni, stage director
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Broadway Licensing, publisher
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Melbar Entertainment Group (Firm), presenter
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Stratford Festival (Ont.), production company
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