Hag Seed: The Tempest Retold

Author: Margaret Atwood

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  • : November 2016
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  • : United Kingdom
  • : October 2016
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Description

'It's got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge.' 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 also brewing revenge. After twelve 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? Margaret Atwood's novel take on Shakespeare's play of enchantment, revenge and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own.

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Shakespeare's play of magic and illusion reimagined by one of the world's great literary innovators

Awards

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist 2017  

Reviews

"The new novels promise an intriguing opportunity to revisit the tales we know so well and see them in a new light." The Culture Trip

Author description

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays, including The Handmaid's Tale, the Booker-winning The Blind Assassin, the MaddAddam trilogy, and her latest novel, The Heart Goes Last. Her work has received many awards around the world. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. Her first encounters with Shakespeare took place in the 1950s at her Toronto high school, and she has consistently named him as one of the most important influences on her own work. 'The Tempest is, in some ways, an early multi-media musical,' she says. 'If Shakespeare were working today he'd be using every special effect technology now makes available. But The Tempest is especially intriguing because of the many questions it leaves unanswered. What a strenuous pleasure it has been to wrestle with it!'