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Comments on Act III, scene vi
In the Ian McKellan / Trevor Nunn production (RSC 2009), after Kent has taken Lear toward Dover, Cornwall's men arrest Gloucester at gunpoint, and hang the Fool, as he recites a speech from an earlier scene. This added stage action helps explain the Fool's absence in the rest of the play.
In a 1982 RSC production, Lear killed the Fool (Anthony Sher) accidentally in an insane rage, thinking he was dissecting Regan's heart.