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The Duchess of Gloucester executed the perfect curtsy at ... was seen making the formal greeting to the King and Queen as the senior royals left the Abbey. Royal ladies normally bob down into ...

So it was with Riw Rakkulchon’s massive pyramid-like monolithic boulders of Lear ... of Gloucester is a most chilling moment, made all the more disturbing by her calm detachment. The Earl ...

The week that Mahmoud Khalil became a political prisoner of the Trump regime, I was teaching Shakespeare’s King ... Lear, betrayed by ungrateful and conniving daughters, but the Earl of ...

None of this has stopped King Lear remaining among the most quotable ... It may be infantile to expect video-nasty relish in the gouging of Gloucester’s eyes, but something more than the ...

What happens when a leader wants all the power and none of the responsibility? Or when a patriarch succumbs to flattery over a more difficult truth? Shakespeare asks these questions and more in ...

Strong with verse text. EARL OF GLOUCESTER (he/him, 40s-50s, open ethnicity) - Nobleman close to KING LEAR. Father of EDMUND and EDGAR. A man of both great emotional depth and wit. Loyal and self ...

Caleb Obadiah, Dylan Corbett-Bader, Saffron Coomber, Deborah Alli and Mara Allen (from left) in King Lear. Marc J ... My mind went to Gloucester’s astrological pearl-clutching: “These late ...

At two hours with no intermission, this stunning Branagh-helmed and -starring production is, in the best possible way, “King Lear’s ... s play—poor Gloucester!—rendered here into ...

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 ...

Love and betrayal were woven into one under a rattling thunderstorm in Woodson High School's gripping production of "Lear ... banished son of the Earl of Gloucester) brought a madness that ...

Smack in the middle of Shakespeare’s King Lear, the Earl of Gloucester’s sweet, naïve son reaches rock bottom. Edgar’s been terribly tricked by his bastard half-brother; he’s disinherited ...