The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 25.291 Monday, 30 June 2014
From: Hardy Cook <
Date: June 27, 2014 at 1:15:54 PM EDT
Subject: Shakespeare’s Globe: King Lear - Folger Shakespeare Library
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Shakespeare’s Globe: King Lear
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Bill Buckhurst
Composed by Alex Silverman
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
Sep 5–21
Weary of his royal duties, King Lear proposes to break up his kingdom and divide it among his three daughters. Shakespeare’s Globe’s King Lear stars Joseph Marcell, well known as Geoffrey the English butler on the hit TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and internationally known as a classical actor and seen in Folger Theatre’s 2007 As You Like It.