A theater director, drummed out of his summer stock company Shakespeare Festival, plots a long-range revenge in Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed.
Hag-Seed is part of a new series of re-imagined Shakespeare works from the Hogarth Shakespeare Project. Atwood (probably best known for The Handmaid's Tale) takes on The Tempest, creating a world within a world as the director decides to put on The Tempest at a local prison. Before too long, the play mirrors the actions in real life.
Very clever, with a lot of cool elements, but at some points feels more like an exercise than a fully realized work. Nonetheless Hag-Seed is an enjoyable read and has lots of little nuggets to mine for Shakespeare fans (as well as Atwood's).
I listened to a nice audiobook version of this novel on loan from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library in New Castle, Indiana.
Hag-Seed is part of a new series of re-imagined Shakespeare works from the Hogarth Shakespeare Project. Atwood (probably best known for The Handmaid's Tale) takes on The Tempest, creating a world within a world as the director decides to put on The Tempest at a local prison. Before too long, the play mirrors the actions in real life.
Very clever, with a lot of cool elements, but at some points feels more like an exercise than a fully realized work. Nonetheless Hag-Seed is an enjoyable read and has lots of little nuggets to mine for Shakespeare fans (as well as Atwood's).
I listened to a nice audiobook version of this novel on loan from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library in New Castle, Indiana.
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