· Hag-Seed review – Margaret Atwood turns The Tempest into a perfect storm The Canadian author’s contribution to the Hogarth Shakespeare project makes reinterpreting the Bard a Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. · Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood is a contemporary version of 'The Tempest.' In a nutshell: The Tempest tells the story of Prospero, a duke that's been deposed and exiled by his treacherous brother Antonio, who's in cahoots with the King/5. · Praise for Hag-Seed “What makes the book thrilling, and hugely pleasurable, is how closely Atwood hews to Shakespeare even as she casts her own potent charms, rap-composition included Part Shakespeare, part Atwood, Hag-Seed is a most delicate monster—and that’s ‘delicate’ in the 17th-century sense. It’s delightful.”Brand: Random House Publishing Group.
There are many, many moments in Hag-Seed when the reader-who will get more out of the novel if she has seen or read the original play though it's not necessary to enjoy the book-will no doubt smile in wry recognition as Atwood appropriates Shakespeare's plot twists and characters for her contemporary story. That's one of the delights of Hag-Seed, the surreptitious recasting of a timeless. Hag-Seed Summary. The novel begins with a prologue in the form of a script. A large screen announces that the Fletcher Correctional Players will be performing The Tempest, and soon the play commences. However, just a few lines into the first scene, the action stops and the room goes pitch black. Shots are heard outside, and the audience is. HAG-SEED "The Tempest" Retold By Margaret Atwood pp. Hogarth Shakespeare. $ Some years ago, the publishing company Hogarth announced a fascinating initiative: a series of novels based.
Hag-Seed is a re-visiting of Shakespeare’s play of magic and illusion, The Tempest, and will be the fourth novel in the Hogarth Shakespeare series. In Margaret Atwood’s ‘novel take’ on Shakespeare’s original, theatre director Felix has been unceremoniously ousted from his role as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Festival. Praise for Hag-Seed “What makes the book thrilling, and hugely pleasurable, is how closely Atwood hews to Shakespeare even as she casts her own potent charms, rap-composition included Part Shakespeare, part Atwood, Hag-Seed is a most delicate monster—and that’s ‘delicate’ in the 17th-century sense. It’s delightful.”. Hag-Seed is a novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, published in October A modern retelling of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, the novel was commissioned by Random House as part of its Hogarth Shakespeare series. The novel centres on theatre director Felix who loses his job with Makeshiweg Theatre, and is exiled from his position in society, following his betrayal by a trusted colleague. Having suffered in isolation, Felix is granted the position of teaching in a prison literacy pro.
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