king lear A05

Stephen Reid

Gonerill and Regan can hardly be human because of the depravity of their deeds

Barbara’s Bleiman

Shakespeare’s daughters challenge patriarchal authority at every turn

Bebe Murray MALFI

The radiant spirit of the Duchess lives on

Stephen Reid

There is no love in their assessment of Lear

Rob Wonall

This play is a tragedy of governance

S L Goldberg

There is no supernatural justice - only human natural justice

Lynda Boose

the aristocratic family of Shakespeare’s England was patrilineal, primogenitural and patriarchal

Critic

All female resistance is defined by gender, sexuality and position in the family

M billington streetcar

A great American play about the lies we all need to sustain our precarious existence

Hazlitt

The unnatural comes to dominate

Philip C Kolin

Streetcar is a play about sexual politics

Christopher Hart Malfi

Bosola is a twisted misanthrope and cutthroat

Nanci rider

a feminist story of a strong woman ahead of her time or just a study of an emancipated widow that reflects the great social and political transitions found in Jacobean England

Nanci rider malfi

Cautionary tale

David Cecil

The world as seen by Webster is of its nature incurable corrupt

Lee bliss malfi

The cardinals cool unemotional detachment is more terrifying than Ferdinand’s impassioned raving

New Yorker

A play about the disintegration of a woman or a society

Ruby Cohn

Stanley has trained his wife to catch his meat in every sense

A McConachie

violent solder or desperate hedonist

Williams streetcar

The ravishment of the tender, the sensitive, the delicate by the savage and brutal forces of modern society