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King Lear and Alzheimer's?

On March 24th, 2009 Sara Moreno said:

Last year, I went to a reading with Jane Smiley, who mentioned the time she spent researching A Thousand Acres (her novel based on Lear). She said that she attended a conference where one speaker suggested that King Lear may have been suffering from Alzheimer's or the beginning stages of dementia and perhaps Shakespeare was drawing from experiences in his own life.

I'm curious of your thoughts on this...

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