Hag-Seed: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
In this creative reimagining of William Shakespeare’s final play, theatre director Felix stages a performance of The Tempest with a group of prison inmates. Margaret Atwood, who so brilliantly nests stories-within-stories in her Booker Prize-winning novel The Blind Assassin, employs this strategy again to brilliant effect, finding echoes between the action of the play and the lives of the protagonist and his cast. A worthy addition to the much-loved Hogarth Shakespeare project, in which bestselling authors were tasked with retelling the bard’s most famous plays.
