BBC Documentary - Paul Scofield as Lear (1964)
King Lear - BBC Production, Part 1
King Lear: I, 1 (Ian Holm, 1997)
King Lear: II, 2 (Laurence Olivier)
King Lear: II, 4 (Ian McKellen, 2007)
King Lear: II, 4 (James Earl Jones, 1974)
King Lear: IV, 6 (Laurence Olivier)
King Lear: end of play (Laurence Olivier)
King Lear, Clip 1 (dir. Peter Brook, 1971)
King Lear Summary - eNotes
Ran, Part 1 (Japanese adaptation of King Lear, dir. Kurosawa, 1985)
Ran - Battle from the Woods scene
Background on King Lear - Great Performances, PBS
Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs - King Lear
Critical Essays - King Lear
Edgar and Kingship in the Three King Lears - A. Stoll
Engaging with the Play: Ways of Seeing King Lear
Enjoying King Lear - Ed Friedlander
How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth - parody
Is This the Promised End? - Joyce Carol Oates
King Lear - Social/historical background, staging Lear
King Lear - theatrehistory.com
King Lear - Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous critique
King Lear and Editing Shakespeare - Analysis and sample exercises
King Leir the Play: Background and Introduction - Great Performances, PBS
The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare's King Lear - Steve Sohmer
No Fear Shakespeare - King Lear
Shakespeare Illustrated - King Lear
Shakespearean Tragedy: King Lear - A. C. Bradley
Sources for King Lear - Great Performances, PBS
Speak What We Feel: An Introduction to King Lear - Ian Johnston
Ian McKellen as King Lear
King Lear Weeping Over the
Death of Cordelia
James Barry (1786-87)
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Lear and Cordelia
Marcus Stone, 1874
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King Lear and the Fool in the Storm
William Dyce, 1851
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Folger Shakespeare Library Curriculum Guide to King Lear 
"I will not hear that play": Performing a Silent Scene
King Lear - Web English Teacher
Multiple Texts, Multiple Editions
Questions of Kingship in King Lear
Seeing, storms, and madness: King Lear
Speak What We Feel, Not What We Ought to Say
Teacher's Guide to King Lear - Signet
To Love, Honor and Obey (One's Parents!)
Edwin Forrest as King Lear - James Rees
Every Inch a King - Interview with actor Ian Holm on King Lear
Great Performances (Ian McKellen) - Watch the entire play online (thank you PBS)
Images of Performances of King Lear - UPenn Library
Interview with Sir Ian McKellen on playing King Lear
The King Lear Quarto in Rehearsal and Performance - David Richman
Ran - Japanese King Lear by Akira Kurosawa
Ran - Review, Roger Ebert
Royal Shakespeare Company - 2004 Production
Royal Shakespeare Company Guide to King Lear
Complete text at MIT
Download complete text in MS Word - lear.doc (426K), lear.zip (122K).
King Lear - Commentary with Quarto and Folio text variations
Searchable online text at The Literature Network
Internet Shakespeare Edition - Draft texts of the folio and quarto editions
OpenSource Shakespeare - cue scripts