352 pages |Paperback

New York Times Bestseller
In transformingKing Learinto a potty-mouthed jape, Moore is up to more than thumbing his nose at a masterpiece. His version of Shakespeares Fool, who accompanies Lear on his slide from paternal arrogance to spiritual desolation in the original text, simultaneously honors and imaginatively enriches the character.
San Francisco Chronicle

This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank . . . If thats the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!

Verily speaks Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, who hath writteneth much that is of grand wit and belly-busting mirth, including such laurelled bestsellers of the Times of Olde Newe Yorke asLamb, A Dirty Job,andYou Suck(no offense). Now he takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) in a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughtersa rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust . . . and a ghost (theres always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head.