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1
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What did Joseph Warton say about the play?

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“too savage and shocking”

2
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What did George Orwell think?

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“It is too drawn-out and has too many characters and sub-plots”

3
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G.K. Hunter

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“King Lear is generally agreed today to be Shakespeare’s ‘greatest play’”

4
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Maynard Mack (1993)

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“King Lear’s world, like our century, is larger, looser, cruder, crueller.”

5
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G. Wilson Knight

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“The play is a microcosm of the human race.”