Is blood thicker than water? Should family always come first? These clichés about the importance of family abound, despite ...

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 ...

Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of Shakespeare’s most devastating works. Tt is a production that does what great ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Christopher Plummer was nominated but did not win.

Gloucester sets out to help him but is found for treason and is blinded. His son, Edgar leads him to safety where King Lear is also hiding. The English army defeats the French army led by Cordelia ...

Four hundred years after it was written, King Lear resonates as never before in ... (Bell tolling) Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester. I shall, my lord. Meantime we shall express ...

Once Gloucester sees the letter, he writes Edgar off as a villain. Feeling betrayed, Edgar assumes a new identity as a beggar and goes no-contact with his family. In the second plot, King Lear ...

King Lear, old and tired ... In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall ...