Hag-seed : William Shakespeare's The tempest retold / Margaret Atwood.

By:

Atwood, Margaret, 1939- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Hogarth ShakespearePublication details: Toronto, Ontario : Vintage Canada, 2017.Edition: Vintage Canada editionDescription: xi, 293 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

0099594021
9780099594024

DDC classification:

813.ATW

Summary: Our greatest literary innovator and beloved novelist has reimagined Shakespeare\'s final, great play of magic and illusion. Entertaining, gripping, emotionally rich and wise, Hag-Seed is an homage to a master, positioned for the fall celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the Bard\'s death. \'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 brewing revenge. After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his motley crew of inmate actors will put on his Tempest, and snare the traitors who destroyed him. But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?-- Provided by publisher.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The 'riotous, insanely readable' ( Observer ) retelling of The Tempest from the 2019 Booker Prize-winning author of THE TESTAMENTS .

' Riotous, insanely readable and just the best fun...' Observer

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. It will 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. 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?

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017**

Vintage Canada edition, 2017--Title page verso.

Published by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House Canada Limited, in 2017. Originally published in hardcover by Knopf Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, in 2016--Title page verso.

A reader\'s guide--Pages 302-303.

Our greatest literary innovator and beloved novelist has reimagined Shakespeare\'s final, great play of magic and illusion. Entertaining, gripping, emotionally rich and wise, Hag-Seed is an homage to a master, positioned for the fall celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the Bard\'s death. \'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 brewing revenge. After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his motley crew of inmate actors will put on his Tempest, and snare the traitors who destroyed him. But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?-- Provided by publisher.

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

PROLOGUE: Screening Wednesday, March 13, 2013. The house lights dim. The audience quiets. ON THE BIG FLATSCREEN: Jagged yellow lettering on black: THE TEMPEST By William Shakespeare with The Fletcher Correctional Players Onscreen: A hand-printed sign, held up to the camera byAnnouncer,wearing a short purple velvet cloak. In his otherhand, a quill. Sign: A SUDDEN TEMPEST Announcer: What you're gonna see, is a storm at sea:Winds are howlin', sailors yowlin',Passengers cursin' 'em, 'cause it gettin' worse:Gonna hear screams, just like a ba-a-d dream,But not all here is what it seem,Just sayin'. Grins. Now we gonna start the playin'. He gestures with the quill. Cut to: Thunder and lightning, in funnel cloud, screengrab from the Tornado Channel. Stock shot of ocean waves. Stock shot of rain. Sound of howling wind.Camera zooms in on a bathtub-toy sailboat tossing up and down on a blue plastic shower curtain with fish on it, the waves made by hands underneath.Closeup of Boatswain in a black knitted tuque. Water is thrown on him from offscreen. He is drenched. BOATSWAIN: Fall to't yarely, or we run ourselves aground! Bestir, bestir! Yare! Yare! Beware! Beware! Let's just do it, Better get to it, Trim the sails, Fight the gales, Unless you wantin' to swim with the whales! VOICES OFF: We're all gonna drown! BOATSWAIN: Get outta tha' way! No time for play! A bucketful of water hits him in the face. VOICES OFF: Listen to me! Listen to me! Don't you know we're royalty? BOATSWAIN: Yare! Yare! The waves don't care! The wind is roarin', the rain is pourin', All you do is stand and stare! VOICES OFF: You're drunk! BOATSWAIN: You're a idiot! VOICES OFF: We're doomed! VOICES OFF: We're sunk! Closeup of Ariel in a blue bathing cap and iridescent ski goggles, blue makeup on the lower half of his face. He's wearing a translucent plastic raincoat with ladybugs, bees, and butterflies on it. Behind his left shoulder there's an odd shadow. He laughs soundlessly, points upward with his right hand, which is encased in a blue rubber glove. Lightning flash, thunderclap. VOICES OFF: Let's pray! BOATSWAIN: What's that you say? VOICES OFF: We're goin' down! We're gonna drown! Ain't gonna see the King no more! Jump offa the ship, swim for the shore! Ariel throws his head back and laughs with delight. In each of his blue rubber hands he's holding a high-powered flashlight, in flicker mode. The screen goes black. A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE: What? ANOTHER VOICE: Power's off. ANOTHER VOICE: Must be the blizzard. A line down somewhere. Total darkness. Confused noise from outside the room. Yelling. Shots are fired. A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE: What's going on? VOICES, FROM OUTSIDE THE ROOM: Lockdown! Lockdown! A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE: Who's in charge here? Three more shots. A VOICE, FROM INSIDE THE ROOM: Don't move! Quiet! Keep your heads down! Stay right where you are. From the Hardcover edition. Excerpted from The Tempest by Margaret Atwood All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Canada. She received a B.A. from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1961 and an M.A. from Radcliff College in 1962.

Her first book of verse, Double Persephone, was published in 1961 and was awarded the E. J. Pratt Medal. She has published numerous books of poetry, novels, story collections, critical work, juvenile work, and radio and teleplays. Her works include The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Power Politics, Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Morning in the Buried House, the MaddAdam trilogy, and The Heart Goes Last. She has won numerous awards including the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Booker Prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin, the Giller Prize and the Premio Mondello for Alias Grace, and the Governor General's Award in 1966 for The Circle Game and in 1986 for The Handmaid's Tale, which also won the very first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987. She won the PEN Pinter prize in 2016 for her political activism. She was awarded the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize for the outstanding literary merit of her body of work.

(Bowker Author Biography)