Hag-seed : The Tempest retold
Title:
Hag-seed : The Tempest retold
Author:
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest. Adaptation of (work):
ISBN:
9781781090237
Publication Information:
London : Hogarth, c2016.
Physical Description:
xiii, 293 p. ; 22 cm
Series:
Hogarth Shakespeare
Hogarth Shakespeare.
Series Title:
Hogarth Shakespeare
Hogarth Shakespeare.
Abstract:
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 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?
Subject:
| Daughters -- Death -- Fiction. |
| Revenge -- Fiction. |
| Prison theater -- Fiction. |
Summary:
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 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?