28 OCTOBER 2006, Page 30

Brotherly confusion

From Michael Grosvenor Myer

Sir: Perhaps ‘The whole of Edgar’s “Now, gods, stand up for bastards” soliloquy is missing’, as Lloyd Evans complains (Arts, 21 October), from the Russian Lear at the Barbican because the speech actually belongs to Edmund.

Michael Grosvenor Myer

Cambridge