Great Performances - Season 3 Episode 5 : King Lear

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Great Performances - Season 3 Episode 5 : King Lear
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Title:Great Performances - Season 3 Episode 5 : King Lear
Genre: Comedy, Documentary, Drama
Air Date: 1974-02-20
Season Number: 3
Episodes Number: 5
Guest Stars: Douglass Watson (Kent), Paul Sorvino (Gloucester), Raúl Juliá (Edmund), James Earl Jones (King Lear), Rosalind Cash (Goneril), Lee Chamberlin (Cordelia), Ellen Holly (Regan), Jean-Pierre Stewart (France), René Auberjonois (Edgar), Frederick Coffin (Oswald), Tom Aldredge (Fool), George Dzundza (Gentleman), Hal Holbrook (Self - Host), Richard Kiley (Introduction Narrator (voice) (uncredited))
Stars: Bray Poor (Narrator (voice)),
Overview
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.
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