Tag: Retelling
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Recommended Reading: Hag-Seed
Hag-Seed is Margaret Atwood’s contribution to the Hogarth Shakespeare series, which are retellings of Shakespeare plays set in contemporary times. (Previously, I read The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterston, also in this series.) Atwood takes on one of my favorite Shakespeare plays, The Tempest, locating it in the world of small-time Canadian politics. Felix…
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Recommended Reading: The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson is a retelling of Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale, part of a series of contemporary retellings of Shakespeare by literary authors. Winterson just rolls with the absurdity of her source material, inserting a completely appropriate sense of magical realism into the contemporary time and setting by employing a series of fairy tale-esque…
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Recommended Reading: After Alice by Gregory Maguire
I just read Gregory Maguire’s new book, After Alice, a retelling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice wasn’t the only one who fell down the rabbit hole; her friend Ada, passingly mentioned in the original Alice in Wonderland, followed her down and had her own set of adventures, while on that same day, Charles Darwin visited Alice’s father…
Shannon Turlington 