Lear's Fool: I will Not Go to Bed at Noon

As if there wasn’t enough politics spread all over King Lear, I had to go and add more. Lear’s Fool is about the intrigue behind the intrigue. The play focuses in on none other than Lear’s Fool and his dealings with other players in the game. The Fool works furiously behind the scenes plying his art of influence on Edgar, Edmund and the others. Because this is a story of the power behind the power, the one person who doesn’t show up in Lear’s Fool is Lear himself!
With a nod to the Bard, Tom Stoppard and the Butterfly Effect and all those who have come before me, I tried to create a world where the concept of influence is explored and exploited.
The story is set up when Lear chooses the Fool, the child of Lear’s now deceased and beloved steward, to be the court fool. The Fool, who has been sent to study abroad with Edgar and Edmund and has absorbed as much knowledge as he could get his hands on, determines that the wonderful gift of existing in this world of power cannot be squandered. He believes he can influence the fates of those around him and that of his country even though he holds no power of his own whatsoever.

Thus begins the machinations of the powers behind the power.