This is the 1st of your 3 free articles

Become a member for unlimited website access and more.

FREE TRIAL Available!

Learn More

Already a member? Sign in to continue reading

Happy Birthday, Billy Shakes: 5 modern-day retellings of Shakespeare’s plays

The play's the thing...the thing that inspired these novels, that is.

Add to Favorites

Fool: A Novel by Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore has previously written books starring Death, vampires, and Jesus’ best friend, Lamb. In Fool, he tackles King Lear, respinning the tale as told by – you guessed it – the Fool. ““It’s hard to resist so gleeful a tale of murder, witchcraft, treason, maiming, and spanking…Fool is a wickedly good time,” writes the Christian Science Monitor.

Check the price on Amazon!