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Season Premiere

BBC Television Shakespeare: Season 5

5x01 King Lear

  • 1982-09-18T23:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 2h 30m
  • Jonathan Miller
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy, Drama
First screened in 1982, this timeless Shakespeare story of an ageing King who decides to divide his Kingdom between his three daughters stars Michael Hordern as Lear, with Brenda Blethyn as Cordelia, Gillian Barge as Goneril, Penelope Wilton as Regan, Michael Kitchen as Edmund and Anton Lesser as Edgar.
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