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Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest…
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Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare) (edizione 2016)

di Margaret Atwood (Autore)

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Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After 12 years revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?… (altro)
Utente:JMigotsky
Titolo:Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Autori:Margaret Atwood (Autore)
Info:Hogarth (2016), Edition: First American Edition, 320 pages
Collezioni:In lettura, Da leggere, Letti ma non posseduti
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I very much enjoyed this book. I'm not always a fan of revenge stories but the miserable part of the story isn't dwelled on over much, the bulk focusing on the main character's new agenda.

I'm the sort of reader that likes "brain candy," things like allusions or references to other works, literary devices, etc. This book has plenty, being a retelling of Shakespeare's the Tempest both within the book and as the book. I highly recommend it if you also like that sort of thing. ( )
  WeeTurtle | Feb 18, 2024 |
"Hag-Seed" was my first foray into the Hogarth Shakesepeare series, but hardly my first encounter with Margaret Atwood, whose novels and poetry I enjoy. I am not the most loyal fan of Shakespeare's works, but this reimagining of "The Tempest" was quite clever, on the one hand, but, on the other, it not capture my undivided attention so I did not feel compelled to pick it up in every spare moment as I ordinarily do when reading a good book. I will chalk it up to the temporal demands of the holidays and hope that I fare better with other books in the series. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
This retelling of The Tempest has a brilliant central conceit—an outcast theater director revenges himself not with a tempest, but with The Tempest. The story that follows provides an interesting close reading of Shakespeare's play, but as a novel it failed to coalesce for me.

Atwood is writing a wacky satire, so implausible plotting and static characters can be forgiven, but the storytelling felt flat. Maybe the constraint of the Hogarth Shakespeare series, with its requirement to stick somewhat closely to the source material, was the problem here. There were good moments, and I always enjoy reading Atwood's clever, accessible prose, but the whole didn't leave much of an impression. ( )
  raschneid | Dec 19, 2023 |
Margaret Atwood does a great job of recasting The Tempest as both a revenge novel and as a play within a play where the revenge is enacted. Very effective, but, like The Tempest itself, hard to summarize. ( )
  akblanchard | Dec 14, 2023 |
Really fun and enjoyable retelling of The Tempest. Atwood came up with the perfect premise of an ousted director winding up putting on a performance of The Tempest within a prison. All very post-modern and self-referential. It was clear Atwood was having a great time - she tells of the director getting the inmate/actors to analyse the text, inviting us to analyse hers in the same manner. She does a good job of paralleling The Tempest's plot, though that does make for some slightly overly-extended suspension of disbelief here and there — but she gets away with it, given the constraints in which she's working. One minor complaint is that the denouement lacks a little tension, but, still, for anyone who has any fondness for Shakespeare's play, this is very highly recommended. 4.5/5. ( )
  thisisstephenbetts | Nov 25, 2023 |
While “Hag-Seed” is a book that’s great for a quick read, it doesn’t deliver the punches that the premises promise, making it an all-around mediocre book.
 

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“This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge
keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise
would heal, and do well.”

 —  Sir Francis Bacon, "On Revenge."
“. . . although there are nice people on the stage, there are some who would make your hair stand on end.”

 —  Charles Dickens.
“Other flowering isles must be
In the sea of Life and Agony:
Other spirits float and flee
O’er that gulf . . .”

  —  Percy Bysse Shelly, "Lines
Written Among the Euganean Hills."
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Gwendolyn MacEwen, 1941-1987

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"But Shakespeare is such a classic."
Too good for them, was what she meant. "He had no intention of being a classic!" Felix said, adding a tinge of indignation to his voice. "For him, the classics were, well, Virgil, and Herodotus, and...He was simply an actor-manager trying to keep afloat. It's only due to luck that we have Shakespeare at all! Nothing was even published till he was gone!"
The prisoners loved the fight scenes. Why not? Everyone loved the fight scenes: that's why Shakespeare put them in.
A cruise ship filled with old people, people even older than himself, snoozing in deck chairs and doing line-dancing—that was his idea, if not of hell exactly, then at least of limbo. A state of suspension somewhere on the road to death. But on second thought, what did he have to lose? The road to death is after all the road he's on, so why not eat well during the journey?
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Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After 12 years revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?

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