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

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 ...

The week that Mahmoud Khalil became a political prisoner of the Trump regime, I was teaching Shakespeare’s King Lear ... but the Earl of Gloucester and his two sons, Edgar and Edmund.

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 ...