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Comments on Act III, scene vii
In the 1962 RSC production by Peter Brook, the director chose to emphasize the moral decay and cruelty of the times by omitting this final sympathetic act between the servants (which is in fact cut in the Folio). Instead of receiving help, the blinded Gloucester was pushed aside by the servants and had to feel his way offstage, even as the intermission lights came up in the auditorium.