Jan (“yawn”) Kott’s comparison of this play to Beckett’s Endgame inspired a production of this play in which the house-lights come up while servants ignore a character with a rag over his head who is trying to leave the stage. The Prince of Paphlagonia in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia inspired a character in this play who was played by Alan Webb in Peter Brook’s 1962 production and whose wounds are treated with a mixture of flax and egg whites. A man in this play is asked “where is thy lustre now?” by a character who says “out, vile jelly!” while that man’s “corky arms” are bound. Hoping to jump off a cliff to his death, a man in this play is led to Dover by his son, whose voice he fails to recognize. For 10 points, the blinding of Gloucester (“gloster”) takes place in what Shakespeare play whose title character exiles his daughter Cordelia? ■END■
ANSWER: King Lear
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