Lee Langley

A wife for King Lear — J.R. Thorp imagines another Lady Macbeth

Banished to a convent by her husband for a mysterious crime, the queen sows discord among the nuns until news arrives of the death of her loved ones

King Lear and Cordelia by James Barry, 1776. [Getty Images]
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    J.R. Thorp

    Canongate, pp. 336, £14

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