There’s never a shortage of Top 10 lists I could re-blog, so I try to limit it to the ones where I find some unique value. Here we get to talk about 10 Shakespearean Stories in Modern Fiction.
This one caught my eye because I can see that they’re using a photo from the recent Lady Macbeth movie. From what I understood, there’s almost no actual Shakespeare in that one? Does anybody know one way or the other? I thought all it really took from the original was the name. But extra special Easter egg points if you click through the book shop link where you’ll see that the translation was handled by a Mr. McDuff. Love it.
I’m also intrigued by The Diviners, a Canadian novel from 1974 that’s supposed to be loosely based on The Tempest? I’ve truly never heard of that one.
For the curious, the three I knew where A Thousand Acres, The Tragedy of Arthur and of course Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. I feel like it’s cheating to even include that one. 🙂
I’ve heard a lot about Shylock Is My Name but never read it. The others on the list are complete mysteries to me. I’ve heard the term “Withnail and I” over the years but I’m not sure I ever knew it’s supposed to be Hamlet?
If there’s some gold in this list that I’m missing, enlighten me!
(Extra special thanks that there’s no f$%^&*ng Lion King on it, too!)
I loved Margaret Atwood’s “Hagseed,” a novel about a production of “The Tempest” and a re-telling of the story at the same time.