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== Quotes about ''King Lear'' ==
* {{quote|''Lear'' is a play [that] contains a great deal of veiled social criticism — but it is all uttered either by the Fool, by Edgar when he is pretending to be mad, or by Lear during his bouts of madness. In his sane moments Lear hardly ever makes an intelligent remark.|[[George Orwell]]|''[[wikipedia:Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool|Lear]]''}}
 
* ''Lear'' is a play [that] contains a great deal of veiled social criticism — but it is all uttered either by the Fool, by Edgar when he is pretending to be mad, or by Lear during his bouts of madness. In his sane moments Lear hardly ever makes an intelligent remark.
:* [[George Orwell]], in ''[[wikipedia:Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool|Lear]]''
 
* From ''[[Histeria!]]''
{{quote|''King Lear, Shakespeare's
Tragical ruler who cast out his daughter,
The story is sad, cause then he feels bad,
And then he goes mad, then both of them ''die!''
|[[Joan of Arc]] giving a - very abbreviated - description of the plot in the song "The Story That's Told By the Bard"|''[[Histeria!]]''}}
 
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