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.

With his recent “Much Ado About Nothing” and now his “King Lear ... he’s complicit when Cornwall (Yao Dogbe) plucks out the eyes of Edmund’s father, Craig Wallace’s noble Gloucester.

Edmund tries to reason why being a bastard should not keep him from what he ... Gloucester sets out to help him but is found for treason and is blinded. His son, Edgar leads him to safety where ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cries the mad Lear to his blinded servant ... outcast. The eyes, not feet, of Gloucester, the father of Edmund, and the smaller echo of the great King, are pierced, and he is thrust outside ...

William Shakespeare's "King Lear ... his daughters' betrayal. Yet his cries ring hollow, for he can only blame himself. He is reduced to a homeless wanderer as Regan's husband, Cornwall, and ...