The Old Man and the Heath: A Novel and Stories
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Sell my copyAuthor: Lock, Norman
Title: The Old Man and the Heath: A Novel and Stories
Binding: paperback
Number Of Pages: 320
Release Date: 2027-03-23
Details: "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 five centuries. In the seventeenth century, he witnesses the stoning of a young woman, whose martyrdom is commemorated by pilgrims who erect a cathedral to house her bones. Later, he must eke out a living as the site becomes a garrison for Cromwell's soldiers; then an abbey during the plague; a shoe factory at the start of the Industrial Revolution; a military hospital during the First and Second World Wars; a late twentieth-century Shakespearean repertory theater; a swank apartment building; and, in the near future, a "shooting gallery" from which he rescues a young woman whom he names Cordelia. In the companion stories to Lear's tale, Lock brings six of Shakespeare's minor characters to center stage, where they emerge from their traditional roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, and Hamlet. An homage to Shakespeare's enduring hold on our imagination, The Old Man and the Heath is a triumph of originality and invention"-- Provided by publisher.
EAN: 9781954276666
Package Dimensions: height: 210 mm, length: 140 mm, width: 51 mm
Languages: en
