“If you have a daughter, and you know she loves you, you can realate to the wonderfully sad confirmation of doom that comes from the law of unintended consequences. Intending to use his daughers' love to mete out his kingdom in his dotage, Lear's true daugher Cordelia refuses to compete. The wonderfully horrible scene when Lear bemoans her death by asking why a dog, a horse, a rat have life breaks the heart so elegantly, so terribly eloquent. ”
posted Wednesday, January 16 2008