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Atwood who clearly knows her Shakespeare holds up to a funhouse. The decision to stage The Tempest within Hag-Seed can be read as something of a failure of imagination on Atwoods part.

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A play within a play within a novel.

. The novel begins with a prologue in the form of a script. Hogarth 25 320 pages. A large screen announces that the Fletcher Correctional Players will be performing The Tempest and soon the play.

9780804141291 Summary William Shakespeares The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. One neednt be a Shakespeare fan in order to love this retelling of The TempestThe author conveniently summarizes the plot in an appendix. William Shakespeares The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood is a reimagining of William Shakespeares classic play The TempestPublished in 2016 Hag-Seed was.

It also marks an unfortunate transition. Hag-Seed Hogarth Shakespeare Series Margaret Atwood 2016 CrownArchetype 320 pp. And Hag-Seed probably would work well for students.

The Hogarth Press has commissioned a series of novels retelling some of. Hag-Seed is the fourth book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series published by Hogarth Press in which popular authors pen their versions of selected Shakespearean plays. It also felt a little like those questions occasionally listed at the end of.

Thats not to say that Hag-Seed is perfect. But despite this clever construction and a few genuinely moving moments involving Felixs dead daughter Miranda who died of meningitis as a toddler and whose spirit hovers. 9780804141291 Summary William Shakespeares The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed Felix is.

Critics aside Hag-Seed is an entertaining novel balancing humor and poignancy with revenge and anguish. While many will find it an engaging read it will be most enjoyed and. Which is to say Hag.

Her book-length riff on is about endings about retirement as well as casting aside whimsical notions and embracing a more hard-nosed realistic view of the world. Most troublingly its title suggests that its all about Caliban but the novel fails to live up to that promise in any compelling way. But I wanted to read a novel and not a lesson plan.

Critics aside Hag-Seed is an entertaining novel balancing humor and poignancy with revenge and anguish. Anyway the story flows along smoothly.

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