Robert Stattel played Edgar in the 1968 Broadway production of King Lear.
Edgar is elder.
His half-brother Edgar.
Gloucester's sons are called Edgar and Edmund.
Edgar, his legitimate son.
Because he felt like it.
That he had received a letter from Edgar. That Edgar had encouraged him to get rid of Gloucester. That he and Edgar had fought over whether to kill Gloucester and that Edgar had wounded Edmund.
King Lear is.
At the end of KING LEAR, King Lear dies with Cordelia on his hands, dead.
Nahum Tate is the playwright who famously adapted Shakespeare's "King Lear" to have a happy ending, incorporating a comic resolution where Lear survives and Cordelia marries Edgar. This version, first performed in 1681, was popular for many years and overshadowed Shakespeare's original tragic ending.
William Shakespeare wrote the play King Lear.
A number of incidents can be said to be the result of chance in the play:The horrible storm which coincides with Lear's arrival chez Gloucester.Gloucester entrusting himself to the care of Mad Tom, who coincidentally is his sonThe meeting of Gloucester and the mad King LearThe meeting of Oswald with Gloucester and Edgar, enabling Edgar to get the letter Oswald is carrying which proves Edmund's treachery.