King Lear
By: written by William Shakespeare ; directed by Michael Elliott ; adapted for the screen by Sir Laurence Olivier ; produced by Fraser Peacock Associates on behalf of Granada Video.
Publisher: Kultur
Published: 1984
Place of publication: West Long Branch, NJ
Language: eng
Format: DVD
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780769712239
Copyright date: 1984
Notes: Special features: Character descriptions -- Plot summary -- Scene-by-scene outline -- William Shakespeare biography -- Laurence Olivier biography -- Laurence Olivier filmography.
Cast includes Laurence Olivier (King Lear), Colin Blakely (Kent), Anna Calder-Marshall (Cordelia), John Hurt (The Fool), Jeremy Kemp (Cornwall), Robert Lang (Albany), Robert Lindsay (Edmund), Leo McKern (Gloucester), Diana Rigg (Regan), David Threlfall (Edgar), Dorothy Tutin (Goneril).
Publisher no. D1223 (Kultur)
Table of contents: title: Act 1.; title: Scene 1 : Beginning/King Lear's palace; title: Scene 2 : The Earl of Gloucester's castle; title: Scene 3 : The Duke of Albany's palace; title: Scene 4 : A hall in the same; title: Scene 5 : Court before the same; title: Act 2.; title: Scene 1 : Gloucester's castle; title: Scene 2 : Before Gloucester's castle; title: Scene 3 : A wood; title: Scene 4 : Before Gloucester's castle; title: Act 3.; title: Scene 1 : A heath (Deleted by director); title: Scene 2 : Another part of the heath; title: Scene 3 : Gloucester's castle; title: Scene 4 : The heath. Before a hovel.; title: Scene 5 : Gloucester's castle; title: Scene 6 : A chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle; title: Scene 7 : Gloucester's castle; title: Act 4.; title: Scene 1 : The heath; title: Scene 2 : Before Albany's palace; title: Scene 3 : The French camp near Dover (Deleted by director); title: Scene 4 : The same. A tent (Deleted by director); title: Scene 5 : Gloucester's castle; title: Scene 6 : Fields near Dover; title: Scene 7 : A tent in the French camp; title: Act 5.; title: Scene 1 : The British camp, near Dover; title: Scene 2 : A field between the two camps; title: Scene 3 : The British camp near Dover