Hogarth Shakespeare: Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's the Tempest Retold: A Novel (Hardcover)

from TadAD

This is Shakespeare's The Tempest retold by Margaret Atwood as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series: re-imaginings of the plays by contemporary authors. I don't think this is Atwood's best story but, honestly, I'm not sure she could write a bad book. The beginning didn't resonate with me. I fou...

from gendeg

Margaret Atwood's retelling of The Tempest in Hag-Seed is a romp. I mean this in the best way. The parallels in Atwood's Hag-Seed to the Shakespeare play are so on-the-nose that you can practically see her gleefully smirking as she was writing this (especially while coming up with those rap ditti...

from Cariola

Overall, I haven't been too enthusiastic about the Hogarth Shakespeare series, updated novelized versions of some of The Bard's best-known plays, but this one is my favorite. Felix, the long-time artistic director of a Canadian theatre festival, is forced from his position by two greedy underling...

from drewsof

It's perfect, really - it's exactly what I was hoping for, as a lover of theater and Shakespeare and Margaret Atwood. In many ways, this is the most theatrical of the Hogarth Shakespeares so far and it succeeds in a way that novels about theater so often fail: it remembers that the play might be ...

from Liz1564

I read Hag-Seed twice and listened to the audio book before I attempted to review the novel. The first time, I was overwhelmed by what Margaret Atwood had accomplished. The Hogarth Press Shakespeare Project asks authors to retell Shakespeare's plays and make them relevant to today's readers. In h...