Dunbar (Hogarth Shakespeare)

"No one is better suited to adapting King Lear – Shakespeare’s most excruciating family tragedy – than Edward St. Aubyn, a writer whose career was built on familial strife with the exquisite Patrick Melrose novels. His language has a wonderful poetic density, dry, expansive, self-conscious and savage, all at once. The result is Dunbar, a moving, brutal and apt adaptation of the play, and the first really successful installment of the Hogarth Shakespeare series."