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Download * Hag-Seed (Hogarth Shakespeare) PDF by * Margaret Atwood eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Hag-Seed (Hogarth Shakespeare) Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. His productions have amazed and confounded. William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. And also brewing revenge. 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 hi
| Title | : | Hag-Seed (Hogarth Shakespeare) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.95 (846 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804141290 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-03 |
| Language | : | English |
“Atwood’s canny remix offers multiple pleasures…marvel at the ways she changes, updates, and parallels the play’s magic, grief, vengeance and showmanship.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review “…Inventive, heartfelt, and swiftly rendered.” –Library Journal, starred review
Shakespeare in Prison The outer gate swings open, propelled by invisible hands. Mythanks, ye demi-puppets, Felix addresses them silently, yeelves of barbed wire, tasers, and strong walls, weak mastersthough ye be. As he drives away downhill the gate closes behindhim, locking itself with a metallic thud, Already the air isdarkening; behind him, the searchlights blare into life.Felix Phillips, renowned theater director fallen on hard times, drives home to his two-room shack after a day rehearsing his producti. Mary Lins said Shakespeare Himself Would Love It!. Margaret Atwood is perhaps the best choice to participate in the Hogarth Shakespeare challenge for famous authors to re-create a play by the great bard, because she is also a poet. Her prose is so lyrical and perfectly suited to the task. In "Hag-Seed", Atwood succeeds beautifully in homage to "The Tempest", perhaps Shakespeare's most "musical" work. In it, her protagonist Felix (Prospero), plots ingenious revenge on his usurpers via a performance of "The Tempest" in a prison.Atwood is. "Middling to Brilliant Atwood" according to Thomas F. Dillingham. Some years ago, there was a television series from Canada called Slings and Arrows. It was set mostly in the theater where a Shakespeare festival was located, and involved (over several seasons) both satirical and sometimes almost gothic portrayals of the behind-the-scenes conflicts, petty backstage politics, and interactions among administrators of the festival, actors, directors, and others, some comical, some sharply satirical, occasionally moving and even tragic. I mention this mem
Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. His productions have amazed and confounded. William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. And also brewing revenge. 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. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall? Margaret Atwood’s novel take on Shakespeare’s play of enchantment, retribution, and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own.
. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, her novels include Cat's Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize; The
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