BK STUART
“lear would rather have flattery than truth”
WILLIAM HAZLITT
“it is Lear’s blindness to everything but the dictates of his passion or affections that produces all his misfortunes”
FRANK KERMODE
“the love he seeks is not the sort that can be offered in formal or subservient expressions”
CHARLES LAMB
“lear is essentially impossible to be represented on stage- to see lear acted…has nothing in it but what is painful and disgusting”
HAL HOLBROOK
“boisterous, demanding, arrogant. he expects nothing but obedience”
“the paranoia of his age is stalking him”
“lear is not a man of conscious intellect”
ARNOLD KETTLE
“lear is a hero”
“lear’s madness is not so much a breakdown as it is a breakthrough. it is necessary”
“it is through his madness…that lear comes to a new outlook on life”
JAN KNOTT
“he does not see or understand anything… lear is ridiculous, naive and stupid”
NICHOLAS BROOKE
“pride is not just humbled, it is reduced from supreme autocratic power to utter penury and insanity”
