Out this week, Atwood’s novel Hag-Seed is spun from The Tempest, one of the Bard’s most enigmatic works. Aubyn is due to deliver his version of King Lear in 2018.)
(The publishing house has also commissioned other respected authors to reinterpret Shakespeare’s plays Jeanette Winterson took on The Winter’s Tale, while Edward St. She’s first and foremost a master storyteller, which is probably why, when Hogarth Press asked her to reinterpret a work by none other than William Shakespeare, she didn’t blink.
“What’s the modern equivalent of being stuck with your teenage daughter on an island where there’s nobody but some supernatural beings and half a witch?”Ītwood’s speculative worlds serve as portents for our own, even as her wry wit sweetens the bitter pill.
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