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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...