The week that Mahmoud Khalil became a political prisoner of the Trump regime, I was teaching Shakespeare’s King ... his flight as proof that he had been plotting against Gloucester. When we read ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Performed with swift urgency, this establishing action sets in motion Lear’s downfall. Though unnerved by awareness of his ... Gloucester’s eyes, which he ...

Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly amongst his three daughters - Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Before he bestows ... nobleman named Gloucester also experiences ...

Few Shakespearean tragedies haunt the imagination more deeply than “King Lear ... he yields his powers, and he cannot see the honesty in the daughter he repudiates, Cordelia. Gloucester ...

Greg Hicks is a startlingly physical King Lear. From the moment we first see him, his collapse into madness feels inevitable; he's wiry and ... is a poignant Gloucester. But only in the final ...

When Edgar reunites with Gloucester, his eyes fill with tears as he witnesses his father’s physical suffering. Before Gloucester dies, Edgar asks his father for a blessing.