Shakespeare Retellings

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All's Well That Ends Well with an assist from Macbeth and a bit of Faustus thrown in for good measure (yes, we know Faustus isn't Shakespeare, but it's still in there).

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"ALL'S WELL is about Miranda Fitch whose life is a waking nightmare after an accident ruins her acting career, and leaves her with chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers and alcohol. On the verge of losing her job as a college theater director, Miranda lives out her broken dreams through an upcoming production of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, when the unimaginable happens. She suddenly recovers,...

2) Ben and Beatriz

Author

Gamarra, Katalina

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Much Ado about Nothing

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There's nothing like falling for your worst enemy. Beatriz Herrera is a fierce woman who will take you down with her quick wit and keen intellect. And after the results of the 2016 election worked hard to erase her identity as a queer biracial woman, she'd be right to. Especially if you come for her sweet BFF cousin, Hero. Beatriz would do anything for her, a loyalty that lands Beatriz precisely where she doesn't want to be: spending a week at the...

3) The dead fathers club

Author

Haig, Matt

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Hamlet

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A ghost story with a twist, from Matt Haig, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.
"Matt Haig has an empathy for the human condition, the light and the dark of it, and he uses the full palette to build his excellent stories." —Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods
Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing...

4) The death I gave him

Author

Liu, Em X

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Hamlet

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A Twenty-First Century Hamlet.

Hayden Lichfield's life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula the two of them developed together, which might one day reverse death itself. Hoping to lure the killer into the open, Hayden steals the research. In the process, he uncovers a recording his father made in the days before

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5) dream of perpetual motion

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6) Dunbar: William Shakespeare's King Lear Retold: A Novel

Author

St. Aubyn, Edward

Series

Hogarth Shakespeare

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King Lear

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A reimagining of one of Shakespeare's most well-read tragedies, by the contemporary, critically acclaimed master of domestic drama
Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions.

Now imprisoned in Meadowmeade,...

7) East, west: stories

Author

Rushdie, Salman

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Read the story "Yorick" for a really nice Hamlet retelling focusing specifically on the backstory of, you guessed it, Yorick.

8) Fool

Author

Moore, Christopher

Series

Fool novels volume 1

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King Lear...sort of. LOL

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"Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students."
—Dallas Morning News

Fool—the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore—is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare's King Lear...as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege's clownish jester, Pocket. A rousing tale of "gratuitous shagging,

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9) Friday's Child

Author

Heyer, Georgette

Series

Regency Romances

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Much Ado About Nothing, but with Hero and Claudio at the center of the story.

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eBook, Kindle

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"A lightsome, brightsome comedy." —Kirkus Reviews

"Nimble, light-hearted chronicle of high London society in the time of the Regency." —The New Yorker

Georgette Heyer's sparkling romances have charmed and delighted millions of readers. Her characters brilliantly illuminate one of the most exciting and fascinating eras of English history—when drawing rooms sparkled with well-dressed

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10) The gap of time

Author

Winterson, Jeanette

Series

Hogarth Shakespeare

Notes

The Winter's Tale

11) Hag-seed: The Tempest retold

Author

Atwood, Margaret

Series

Hogarth Shakespeare

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The Tempest

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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 12 years...

12) I, Iago

Author

Galland, Nicole

Notes

Othello

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"From the author of The Fool's Tale comes a brilliantly-crafted retelling of Shakespeare's Othello in which the "true" motivations of literature's greatest villain, Iago, are revealed"--

13) Iago: A Novel

Author

Snodin, David

Notes

Othello

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An unforgettable adventure beginning where Shakespeare's Othello leaves off Wounded in love, tormented by his past, Shakespeare's most complex villain is brought magnificently to life in this tale of two adversaries-one an accused killer; the other, one of the most powerful men in Venice. Having escaped from Cyprus, accused of the murders of the governor, known as the Moor, and his lovely young wife, Iago is now locked in battle with Annibale Malipiero,...

14) If I'm being honest

Author

Wibberley, Emily

Notes

The Taming of the Shrew

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"Cameron Bright's reputation can be summed up in one word: b*tch. It's no surprise she's queen bee at her private L.A. high school--she's beautiful, talented, and notorious for her brutal honesty. But when she slips up in front of her crush, Andrew, any affection he may have had for her quickly fades. To win him over, Cameron resolves to tame herself, much like Shakespeare's infamous shrew, Katherine. If she makes amends with everyone she's ever wronged,...

15) Infinite jest: a novel

Author

Wallace, David Foster

Notes

Hamlet, sort of.

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Book, Book - Paperback

16) Juliet: a novel

Author

Fortier, Anne

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Romeo and Juliet

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Book - Paperback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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A sweeping novel of intrigue and identity, of love and legacy, as a young woman discovers that her own fate is irrevocably tied—for better or worse—to literature’s greatest star-crossed lovers.
Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie’s...

17) Juliet's nurse: a novel

Author

Leveen, Lois

Notes

Romeo and Juliet

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A "new telling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, told from the perspective of Juliet's nurse. In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant enters the household of the powerful Cappelletti family to become the wet-nurse to their newborn baby. As she serves her beloved Juliet over the next fourteen years, the nurse learns the Cappelletti's darkest secrets. Those secrets-- and the nurse's...

18) The king of infinite space

Author

Faye, Lyndsay

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Hamlet with an assist from characters from the rest of the canon: Robin Goodfellow, the three witches, Ariel all make appearances as does a certain strawberry embroidered scarf.

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"In this lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City, a neuro-atypical philosopher, along with his best friend Horatio and artist ex-fiancé Lia, are caught up in the otherworldly events surrounding the death of his father"--

19) The last true poets of the sea

Author

Drake, Julia

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Twelfth Night

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Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother's hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her family's long struggle with mental illness, all while falling in love.

20) Macbeth

Author

Nesbø, Jo

Series

Hogarth Shakespeare

Notes

The Scottish Play

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Book, Large Print - Hardback

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Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom--a master of manipulation named Hecate--has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way.