The subplot involving the Earl of Gloucester and his sons, Edgar and the illegitimate Edmund, mirrors Lear's tragic descent, adding layers to the narrative. Shakespeare wrote King Lear around ...

“King Lear” features two storylines. Each relates to the disintegration of the family. The first plot involves Gloucester and ... intentionally or not, is tragic. “King Lear” ends with ...

REPRISING his role as King Lear 15 years after he stood in for the late Brian Glover, Barrie Rutter brings a no-nonsense approach to his anti-heroic reading of Shakespeare’s tragic figure ... from ...

If there’s an actor in King Lear who’s attempting to go deep as he drives forward, it’s Kloska. His Gloucester, though conspicuously young — everyone’s young, even Branagh, whose not ...

The week that Mahmoud Khalil became a political prisoner of the Trump regime, I was teaching Shakespeare’s King ... Lear, betrayed by ungrateful and conniving daughters, but the Earl of ...

Branagh’s hotly anticipated stab at King Lear is, sadly, no exception ... More a brief sojourn into mid-life crisis eccentricity than tragic mental disintegration. The production doesn ...

Pulling off “King ... Lear’s favorite, can’t bring herself to play the game and her father, spoiled, erratic and fickle, loses his temper and banishes her. In a parallel plot, nobleman ...

William Shakespeare's King Lear in collaboration with the WVU School ... Attend the Lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester. [Gloucester] I shall my lord. Meantime, we shall express our darker ...

Smack in the middle of Shakespeare’s King Lear, the Earl of Gloucester’s sweet, naïve son reaches rock bottom. Edgar’s been terribly tricked by his bastard half-brother; he’s disinherited ...

Charles Lamb is responsible for the idea that King Lear cannot be shown on a stage ... Edmund the bastard son of Gloucester. Bramhall dominates the big Loeb stage and plays a cunning, cold ...