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Written by William Shakespeare - Directed by Glyn Dearman - Music by Patrick Doyle - Performed by full cast with music - Original BBC Radio Program - 3 COMPACT DISCS - 3 hours

Publisher, Bantam Doubleday Dell (December 1994)

The Renaissance Theatre Company presents an extraordinary production of King Lear. With Sir John Gielgud as Lear, Kenneth Branagh as Edmond, and Emma Thompson as Cordelia, this stellar cast illuminates the terrible consequences of one man's decision to defy the dictates of time and nature in a brilliant ensemble performance.

Embodying some of the most profoundly moving expressions of power corrupted, of love and loyalty betrayed, and of man himself betrayed by age and folly, this production of King Lear sweeps the listener into a majestic maelstrom of love and hate, death and madness. Featuring such luminaries as Sir Derek Jacobi as France and Bob Hoskins as Oswald, this clear, subtly nuanced dramatization combines a full cast with an outstanding musical score and full sound effects, bringing this magnificent Shakespearean classic vividly to life and revealing new riches with each listening. An invaluable aid for students and teachers of Shakespeare---a recording certain to be treasured for decades to come.

A king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves him. So begins this profoundly moving and disturbing tragedy that, perhaps more than any other work in literature, challenges the notion of a coherent and just universe. The king and others pay dearly for their shortcomings--as madness, murder, and the anguish of insight and forgiveness that arrive too late combine to make this an all-embracing tragedy of evil and suffering.