King Lear 80, was deemed ideal for the role and "at home with Lear's skin" by critic Sam Wollaston. The first recording of the Argo Shakespeare for Argo Records was "King Lear" in 1957, directed and produced by George Rylands with William Devlin in the title role, Jill Balcon as Goneril and Prunella Scales as Cordelia. The Shakespeare Recording Society recorded a full-length unabridged audio productions on LP in 1965 (SRS-M-232) directed by Howard Sackler, with Paul Scofield as Lear, Cyril Cusack as Gloucester. Robert Stephens as Edmund, Rachel Roberts, Pamela Brown and John Stride. "King Lear" was broadcast live on the
H. S. Shivaprakash and Girish Karnad's "Taledanda". Shivaprakash won the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi award for this play. His other plays include "Sultan Tipu", "Shakespeare Swapnanauke", "Manteswamy Kathaprasanga", "Madari Madayya", "Madurekanda", "Madhavi", "Matrika", "Makarachandra", "Sati", "Cassandra" and "Maduvehennu". He has also translated Shakespeare's "King Lear" and adapted Federico García Lorca's "The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife" into Kannada under the title "Mallammana Mane Hotlu" and Shakespeare's "Macbeth" under the name "Maranayakana Drishtanta". "Manteswamy Kathaprasanga", a play about a 16th-century Dalit saint was made into a successful stage adaptation by director Suresh Anagalli and produced over 300 shows. It kindled interest in this obscure saint and the