critics

• THORNDIKE: 'They are "inhuman sisters"'
• HUDSON: 'They are "personifications of ingratitude"'
• SPENCER: 'They have been seen as animals who 'violate their proper functions as human beings by their lust for Edmund''
• COPPELIA KAHN: '"Lear goes mad because he is unable to accept his dependence on the feminine, his daughters"'