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Edgardo
Edgardo Edgardo carries both the Anglo-Saxon warrior prosperity of Edgar and the Romantic operatic tradition of the brooding, dispossessed hero — the man who has been robbed of his inheritance and his love, whose pride and passionate devotion make him both magnificent and catastrophically fragile. In King Lear, Edgar's survival through disguise and patient endurance contrasts with others' more violent responses to injustice. It suits protagonists whose nobility is tested by systematic dispossession.
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Edgardo di Ravenswood
Lucia di Lammermoor — Gaetano Donizetti / Salvatore Cammarano
The brooding hero of Donizetti's opera, based on Scott's Edgar of Ravenswood, whose fatal love for Lucia and its prevention by her family drives one of opera's great tragedies.
Edgar
King Lear — William Shakespeare
The legitimate son of Gloucester who disguises himself as the mad beggar Poor Tom to survive his bastard brother Edmund's schemes, eventually restoring order after immense suffering.
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