I love Edgar and Gloucester so much that I drew something else with them—a sequel to my last d
I love Edgar and Gloucester so much that I drew something else with them—a sequel to my last drawing.I’m so mad that Edgar never revealed himself to Gloucester until the very end, in a scene that’s not even shown on stage, just recounted by Edgar… so I drew their final encounter.Edgar’s account of his journey with Gloucester:List a brief tale;And when ‘tis told, O, that my heart would burst!The bloody proclamation to escape,That follow’d me so near—O, our lives’ sweetness!That we the pain of death would hourly dieRather than die at once!—taught me to shiftInto a madman’s rags; to assume a semblanceThat very dogs disdain’d: and in this habitMet I my father with his bleeding rings,Their precious stones new lost: became his guide,Led him, begg’d for him, saved him from despair;Never—O fault!—reveal’d myself unto him,Until some half-hour past, when I was arm’d:Not sure, though hoping, of this good success,I ask’d his blessing, and from first to lastTold him my pilgrimage: but his flaw’d heart,Alack, too weak the conflict to support!'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,Burst smilingly. -- source link
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