King Lear (TV 1948)

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Cast

Credited cast:
	Michael Ashwin	...	King of France
	John Baker
	Nicolette Bernard	...	Regan
	John Chandos	...	Oswald
	Norman Claridge	...	Duke of Albany
	Cyril Conway	...	Duke of Burgundy
	Rosalie Crutchley	...	Goneril
	William Devlin	...	King Lear
	Cyril Hardingham
	Robert Harris	...	Edgar
	Ursula Howells	...	Cordelia
	Maxwell Jackson
	Henry Oscar	...	Duke of Gloucester
	Frederick Ross
	Robert Sansom	...	Duke of Kent

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King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

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