The play in general

Question 1

What did Joseph Warton say about the play?

Answer 1

“too savage and shocking”

Question 2

What did George Orwell think?

Answer 2

“It is too drawn-out and has too many characters and sub-plots”

Question 3

G.K. Hunter

Answer 3

“King Lear is generally agreed today to be Shakespeare’s ‘greatest play’”

Question 4

Maynard Mack (1993)

Answer 4

“King Lear’s world, like our century, is larger, looser, cruder, crueller.”

Question 5

G. Wilson Knight

Answer 5

“The play is a microcosm of the human race.”