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 ...

One Twitter wag had, to my mind ... of an answer. King Lear shocks us with extreme acts of cruelty, such as the blinding of the king’s loyal prime minister, the Earl of Gloucester, by Lear ...

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 ...