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Dunbar by Edward St Aubyn

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January–February 2018, no. 398

Dunbar by Edward St Aubyn

Hogarth Shakespeare, $29.99 pb, 213 pp, 9781781090398

Dunbar by Edward St Aubyn

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January–February 2018, no. 398

‘Leir the sonne of Baldud, was admitted ruler over the Britaines, in the year of the world 3105’ (Holinshed’s Chronicles, 1577). Shakespeare’s play King Lear is set in the long ago, the age of ballads and folktales. ‘Amongst those things that nature gave ...’ goes the ballad King Leir and His Three Daughters. The sea and the storm, beauty, generation, crops, weeds, sex, suffering, death: King Lear deals in those things that nature gave – time unredeemed.

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