In attempting to stage King Lear, a director must decide at least three things: to emphasize the spectacle of Lear’s behavior, or his state of mind ... IV when we see Gloucester, blinded ...

Few Shakespearean tragedies haunt the imagination more deeply than “King Lear,’’ with its aged and dispossessed monarch howling on the stormy heath, the savage blinding of Gloucester ...

Kenneth Branagh’s “King Lear,” which opened Thursday night ... Kent heaps upon villainous servant Oswald in front of Gloucester’s castle. In the trimmed version now running at The Shed ...

Perhaps he doesn’t summon the storm in which Lear loses his mind ... Gloucester and more are just no fun if you try and whip through them to get back to the scenes with the king.

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 ...