{"id":5326,"date":"2022-01-13T23:18:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T05:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2022-01-16T09:23:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T15:23:34","slug":"literary-hub-recommends-the-best-bard-reimaginings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/01\/13\/literary-hub-recommends-the-best-bard-reimaginings\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Hub recommends the best Bard reimaginings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week Literary Hub <\/em>ran an article “On Reimagining the Infinite Dramatic Scope of Shakespeare and His Immortal Characters,”<\/a> in which Kathryn Barker<\/strong> recommended “five cracking titles that rework the Bard’s famous plays.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It will come as no surprise to fans of John Updike that Gertrude and Claudius<\/em> <\/a>made the list. Of Updike’s imaginative historical novel, Barker wrote, “Shakespeare\u2019s play Hamlet <\/em>kicks off with a powder-keg dynamic for its titular character\u2014his father is dead and his mother has married his uncle. But how did things get so complicated? In Gertrude and Claudius<\/em>, Updike explores the lives of Hamlet\u2019s mother, father, and uncle before<\/em> the Prince of Denmark vowed his revenge and took center stage. A prequel that ends just after the start of Shakespeare\u2019s play, this ambitious novel gives insights into characters who\u2014in the original text\u2014were largely supporting.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other novels that made the list: I, Iago<\/em> by Nicole Galland; Ophelia<\/em> by Lisa Klein; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead<\/em> by Tom Stoppard; and I Am Juliet<\/em>, by Jackie French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barker might have included her own Waking Romeo<\/a><\/em>, now available from Amazon, because it too is a retelling of a Shakespeare classic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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