... , the main screen was bare for 2 seconds before Gloucester entered in Act 1, Scene 2 to clearly depict a change in Scene and situation. Extra props and backgrounds were sometimes used to help define a new circumstance or setting, however they too were kept at a bare minimum. This is illustrated in the gray curtain backdrop used to illustrate the journey of Gloucester to Dover in ... complete suffering. This occurs in Act 5 where the catastrophe and tragic end of the play unfolds. The worst possible outcome, which is the death of the tragic hero and the virtuous Cordelia, concludes the pl...

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