Thanks to PBS, you can watch online Ian McKellen starring in King Lear, one of Shakesepeare’s finest tragedies. McKellen performed the play first in England (2007), then on a worldwide tour, before filming the production for public television. You can watch it all right here, and if you want to follow the original text, you can get it from MIT’s Shakespeare web site, which houses Shakespeare’s complete works online.
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I’ve seen King Lear by Kellen and it was formidable. Never seen an actor performed the King as he did. Kellen is superb.
Here, in US, we admire him and recognize him as the finest Shakesperian actor of his generation
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