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In the opening chapter of Edward St. Aubyn's Dunbar, King Lear has been reimagined as a once-formidable Canadian media mogul, Henry Dunbar by Edward St Aubyn. 'I really did have an empire, you know,' said Dunbar . 'Have I ever told you the story o It isn't hard to guess what might have drawn Edward St Aubyn to King Lear, Shakespeare's monumental examination of love, power, insanity LATE IN THE Patrick Melrose novels — the quintet that made Edward St. Aubyn famous — our fairly loathsome hero, Patrick, is on his way back Dunbar has 1084 ratings and 332 reviews. Paromjit said: I first read King Lear when I studied it at school, it is my favourite Shakespeare play despite A reimagining of one of Shakespeare's most well-read tragedies, by the contemporary, critically acclaimed master of domestic drama Henry Dunbar, the once Can you rewrite Shakespeare? The question isn't new, but it's surprising that it keeps on coming up, given the way most attempts have worked Of all the novelist and play matches in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, that of Edward St Aubyn with King Lear seems the finest. Buy Dunbar by Edward St Aubyn from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. A 2014 New Yorker profile of Edward St Aubyn remarked that he “makes frequent reference, in his fiction and his conversation, to works that he