I don’t know why I haven’t posted about this before, but if there was one semi competent person in King Lear, they would have called Edmund out in 2.1 right away-
Edmund: Yeah so I saw Edgar being very sus so I confronted him and told him patricide is bad, but then he stabbed me and ran away
Competent Person: So you didn’t have time to counterattack?
Edmund: no he ran away
CP: then why’s there blood on your sword?
Edmund: …
CP: seems like you stabbed yourself.
@all-peristeronic YOU’RE RIGHT and I somehow didn’t even realize that-
If Gloucester wouldn’t refuse to pay attention to Edmund for a solid 5 seconds, he would have realized that the story didn’t add up.
BUT NOOO HE JUST HAS TO IGNORE HIS SON WHO SUPPOSEDLY SAVED HIS LIFE AND WAS STABBED IN THE PROCESS