Women

• It is a 'fatal error to present Cordelia as a meek saint' - Granville-Barker  
• The daughters 'challenge patriarchal authority at every turn' -  Bleiman  
• 'A mother could have acted as an intermediary between father and daughter' - Bleiman  
• Lear's most 'profound and devastating error is that he doesn't know his daughters' - Susan Bruce  
• 'Fundamentally misogynistic'


  McLuskie
• Lear desires to be mothered by Cordelia

  Psychoanalytic reading