| O’toole | some critics believe that Cordelia has a “fatal flaw” in “not telling a small lie for the sake of a greater truth” |
| Rubio | Cordelia is “an opposition to Lear’s authority”. She uses Silence, the only possible way of subversion” for women of the middle ages |
| Crouch | Director of the Young Shakespeare version of ‘King LearCordelia and the Fool “Look after him, they comment on him, they help him to see” |
| Tromly | Like Edmund, “Edgar is toying with his father” |
| Heilman | The suicide scene “clarifies the essential difference” between the two sons. Edgar deceives father for “profit, Edgar for the “spiritual” finding of his father |
| Knight | “Lear is mentally a child, in passion a titan” |
| Alfar | Goneril and Regan act “in perfect imitation of their father” “Lear is unwilling to submit to his daughters’ authority” |
| Wells | when he gives up his masculinity, “the natural equilibrium breaks down” |
| Harrison | “Children are naturally loyal to their parents” |
| Onyett | there are “undertones of incestuous desire” |
AO3 King Lear quotes – parent/child relationships
July 31, 2019