Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.

You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.