05653cam a2200721 4500 277795528 TxAuBib 20161104120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780804141307 0804141304 B01AQO0IHY Amazon a5253767-313e-4c16-944f-941f4eeb9357 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 239449 2670915 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed [Libby eBook]. Crown/Archetype, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 10MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 10MB. la times fiction award-winning author. sunday times award-winning author. man booker award-winning author. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. hogarth shakespeare series. Fathers and daughters. william shakespeare. truth and illusion. act of violence. conjure a storm. storm at sea. lights off. retelling. deception. shipwreck. Isolation. disaster. Prospero. monsters. revenge. Miranda. caliban. Prince. Naples. Prison. island. a play. Storm. Magic. HTML:<p>Starred review from August 22, 2016<br /> In <em>The Tempest</em>, Prospero is not just exiled king, magician, and father, he’s an impresario staging multiple shows: the storm that strands his enemies on the island; his pretended disdain for Ferdinand, whom he intends for his daughter, Miranda; the play within the play; and, some critics argue, the play itself. In this, the fourth Hogarth Shakespeare adaptation, Atwood underscores these elements by making her Prospero a prominent theater festival director. After being done out of his job by a scheming underling, Felix goes off-grid, teaching literacy and theater to prisoners and grieving a lost daughter. When he learns that the man who took his job, now a political bigwig, will attend the next production, he sees his chance: in this <em>Tempest</em>, it won’t just be Prospero who gets revenge. Former diva Felix is a sly and inventive director and teacher who listens to his cast’s input, and his efforts to shape the play and his plot make for compelling reading. If, at the end, things tie up a little too neatly, the same might be said of the original, and Atwood’s canny remix offers multiple pleasures: seeing the inmates’ takes on their characters, watching Felix make use of the limited resources the prison affords (legal and less so), and marveling at the ways she changes, updates, and parallels the play’s magic, grief, vengeance, and showmanship. <em>125,000-copy announced first printing.</em></p>. Publisher's Weekly. HTML:William Shakespeare's <i>The Tempest</i> retold as <i>Hag-Seed</i><br /> <br /> 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 <i>Tempest</i> like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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 <i>Tempest</i> and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>. "What makes the book thrilling, and hugely pleasurable, is how closely Atwood hews to Shakespeare even as she casts her own potent charms, rap-composition included... Part Shakespeare, part Atwood, "Hag-Seed" is a most delicate monster -- and that's "delicate" in the 17th-century sense. It's delightful.". HTML:<i><b>The Boston Globe</b></i>. HTML:"A funny and heartwarming tale of revenge and redemption, this latest release in the Hogarth Shakespeare project, whose aim it is to retell Shakespeare's most beloved works through the works of bestselling authors like Anne Tyler and Gillian Flynn, <i>Hag-Seed</i> is a remarkable contribution to the canon.". HTML:<i><b>Bustle</b></i>. Humor (Fiction.) Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-11-03 23:00:02. http://slc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=a5253767-313e-4c16-944f-941f4eeb9357 http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a5253767-313e-4c16-944f-941f4eeb9357&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a5253767-313e-4c16-944f-941f4eeb9357&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a5253767-313e-4c16-944f-941f4eeb9357&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)