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Great Performances - S36E12 - King Lear
 

Great Performances season 36 episode 12

King Lear

 
An aging King Lear decides to abdicate and divide his kingdom among his three daughters. He seeks a kind of oath of love before doing so, with which Goneril and Regan falsely comply. Feeling that any statement of “most love” would be false, Cordelia refuses, provoking Lear to disown her and then banish his faithful steward Kent who comes to her defense. She leaves to marry the king of France. However, Lear still wants the trappings of kingship, so proposes to move between the now-divided kingdoms of his two remaining daughters while demanding royal privileges, represented by a companion train of one hundred knights. Kent reappears in disguise and takes up service to Lear. However, Lear gets no further than two weeks at Goneril’s castle. She tires of his knights’ unruly behavior, and threatens to take away half of them. In a rage Lear moves to Regan’s, but she has removed herself to Gloucester’s house, which is too small for one hundred knights. There she and Goneril gradually reduce his status until he is little more than an unwanted house guest, stirring him to increasingly bitter tirades against their ingratitude. He finally banishes himself, winding up on the heath in a brutal storm. Meanwhile, Edmund, the bastard son of Gloucester, has convinced his father through the ruse of a forged letter and a staged wound from a fight that his legitimate son, Edgar, intends to assassinate him. Edmund also convinces Edgar that he is in danger (of course he is). Edgar flees and disguises himself as a beggar and madman to avoid detection. In this state he hides in a hovel on the heath during the storm. Nearby, Lear rages against the gods, nature, and his daughters. As the Fool and Kent try to get him shelter, they discover the “mad” Edgar. The quartet carry on in a madcap kind of way until Lear asks “Is man no more than this?” and has his clothes removed (in some performances). Gloucester finally finds them and leads them to shelter, where Lear cond
 
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Great Performances / S36E12 : King Lear
Season 36, Episode 12 | Aired on March 25, 2009 | TV-PG | 120 min. | PBS
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  • Great Performances - Episode 1 - Pavarotti: A Life in Seven Arias
    Episode 1
    Pavarotti: A Life in Seven Arias
  • Great Performances - Episode 2 - Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2008: A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein
    Episode 2
    Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2008: A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein
  • Great Performances - Episode 3 - Hit Man: David Foster and Friends
    Episode 3
    Hit Man: David Foster and Friends
  • Great Performances - Episode 4 - Domingo, Netrebko & Villazón: Three Stars in Vienna
    Episode 4
    Domingo, Netrebko & Villazón: Three Stars in Vienna
  • Great Performances - Episode 5 - Dance in America: San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker
    Episode 5
    Dance in America: San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker
  • Great Performances - Episode 6 - Great Performances at the Met: Doctor Atomic
    Episode 6
    Great Performances at the Met: Doctor Atomic
  • Great Performances - Episode 7 - From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2009
    Episode 7
    From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2009
  • Great Performances - Episode 8 - Cyrano de Bergerac
    Episode 8
    Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Great Performances - Episode 9 - Great Performances at the Met: Salome
    Episode 9
    Great Performances at the Met: Salome
  • Great Performances - Episode 10 - Great Performances at the Met: La Damnation de Faust
    Episode 10
    Great Performances at the Met: La Damnation de Faust
  • Great Performances - Episode 11 - Great Performances at the Met: Opening Night Gala Starring Renée...
    Episode 11
    Great Performances at the Met: Opening Night Gala Starring Renée...
  • Great Performances - Episode 12 - King Lear
    Episode 12
    King Lear
  • Great Performances - Episode 13 - Great Performances at the Met: Thaïs
    Episode 13
    Great Performances at the Met: Thaïs
  • Great Performances - Episode 14 - Great Performances at the Met: Lucia di Lammermoor
    Episode 14
    Great Performances at the Met: Lucia di Lammermoor
  • Great Performances - Episode 15 - Great Performances at the Met: La Rondine
    Episode 15
    Great Performances at the Met: La Rondine
  • Great Performances - Episode 16 - Great Performances at the Met: Orfeo ed Euridice
    Episode 16
    Great Performances at the Met: Orfeo ed Euridice
  • Great Performances - Episode 17 - In The Heights - Chasing Broadway Dreams
    Episode 17
    In The Heights - Chasing Broadway Dreams
  • Great Performances - Episode 18 - Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood: Live From Madison Square Garden
    Episode 18
    Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood: Live From Madison Square Garden
  • Great Performances - Episode 19 - Stevie Wonder: Live at Last
    Episode 19
    Stevie Wonder: Live at Last
  • Great Performances - Episode 20 - Chess in Concert
    Episode 20
    Chess in Concert
  • Great Performances - Episode 21 - Great Performances at the Met: La Sonnambula
    Episode 21
    Great Performances at the Met: La Sonnambula
  • Great Performances - Episode 22 - Great Performances at the Met: Madama Butterfly
    Episode 22
    Great Performances at the Met: Madama Butterfly
  • Great Performances - Episode 23 - Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration from Madison Square Garden
    Episode 23
    Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration from Madison Square Garden
  • Great Performances - Episode 24 - Great Performances at the Met: La Cenerentola
    Episode 24
    Great Performances at the Met: La Cenerentola
  • Great Performances - Episode 25 - Harlem in Montmartre
    Episode 25
    Harlem in Montmartre
  • Great Performances - Episode 26 - Karajan, Or Beauty as I See It
    Episode 26
    Karajan, Or Beauty as I See It
  • Great Performances - Episode 27 - The Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2009
    Episode 27
    The Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2009
  • Great Performances - Episode 28 - The Police Certifiable
    Episode 28
    The Police Certifiable
 
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