Watch Ian McKellen in King Lear---online

Dan Colman in Open Culture:

Thanks to PBS, you can watch online Ian McKellen starring in King Lear, one of Shakespeare’s finest tragedies. McKellen performed the play first in England (2007), then on a worldwide tour, before filming the production for public television. You can watch it all right here, and if you want to follow the original text, you can get it from MIT’s Shakespeare web site, which houses Shakespeare’s complete works online.