King Lear

by Alexander Leggatt

Book Overview

This updated and expanded analysis of "King Lear" in performance includes new chapters on the television version of the Royal National Theatre production directed by Richard Eyre and starring Ian Holm; and on Akira Kurosawa's "Ran," Earlier chapters provide close, detailed analyses of the stage, film and television interpretations of John Gielgud, Harley Granville Barker, Paul Scofield, Peter Brook, Peter Ustinov, Michael Gambon, Adrian Noble, Grigori...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805787070
• ISBN13: 9780805787078
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Twayne Publishers
• Length: 110 Pages