Ava Roy and John Hadden playing with Shakespeare’s Lear and Cordelia from King Lear for an upcoming production at Hubbard Hall.
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 Lear