The Old Man and the Heath: A Novel and Stories

Shakespeare reimagined in a novel of King Lear, resurrected from the heath to bear witness at time’s end, and six stories that present the Bard’s bit characters anew

Norman Lock recasts King Lear as a survivor of Shakespeare’s tragic play, condemned to live as an old man forever on the heath, where the bucolic landscape evolves into a post-industrial ruin. Reduced from the pinnacle of power to the depths of homelessness and servitude, Lear observes history’s processional across the centuries...