Edward St Aubyn to rework King Lear in the Hogarth Shakespeare series

The Mother’s Milk author joins Anne Tyler, Gillian Flynn, Jeanette Winterson and others commissioned by Hogarth to reimagine Shakespeare’s plays

Edward St Aubyn, who laid bare the cruelties of his own father in his autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, is due to take on another tyrannical patriarch: King Lear.

The English novelist is the latest to sign up to the Hogarth Shakespeare series, in which authors from Jeanette Winterson to Gillian Flynn reimagine the plays of Shakespeare. St Aubyn, said senior editor Juliet Brooke, is “a master at portraying the fault lines in family relationships with caustic precision”, so “who better to take on the ultimate family tragedy” of King Lear?

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