The Public Theater Presents KING LEAR Actor Sam Waterston, Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, and Shakespeare Initiative Director Barry Edelstein discuss Shakespeare's masterpiece and the joys and challenges of playing King Lear. Beginning with the role of Silvius in AS YOU LIKE IT in 1963 and most recently as Polonius in HAMLET in 2008, Mr. Waterston has played a wide range of characters in the Shakespeare canon …
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:26PM on August 8, 2011