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Has this guy never read King Lear ?"
Shakespeare uses jakes confidently in King Lear (c. 1605):
Let copulation thrive, as King Lear would say.
Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which relocates King Lear on an Iowa farm, has been adapted into "an ungainly, undigested assembly of 'women's issues' " (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Critics call its screenplay soap-operatic: The Lear figure (Jason Robards) molests his daughters (Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jennifer Jason Leigh), who babble in lengthy pop-psych disquisitions.
But what's interesting about King Lear is that Lear has no reason to blame his daughters: Their villainy is all in his head.