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- All told, Hag-Seed is a marvelous and thoughtful adaptation. But it still leaves you with questions: Namely, why the title? "Hag-seed" is what Prospero calls Caliban when he curses him, because Caliban is the son of a witch. Yet there’s a certain emptiness in Atwood’s novel where Caliban should be.
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Oct 6, 2016 · 36,772 ratings5,049 reviews. When Felix is deposed as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival by his devious assistant and longtime enemy, his production of The Tempest is canceled and he is heartbroken. Reduced to a life of exile in rural southern Ontario—accompanied only by his fantasy daughter, Miranda, who died twelve years ...
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Oct 11, 2016 · An aspiring documentary filmmaker, a young man who has taught himself traditional dance by watching YouTube, another lost in the bulk of his enormous body—these are just a few of the point-of-view characters in this astonishingly wide-ranging book, which culminates with an event called the Big Oakland Powwow.
Oct 2016, 320 pages. Paperback: May 2017, 320 pages. Genres. Rate this book. Book Reviewed by: James Broderick Buy This Book. About this Book. Summary. Excerpt. Book Summary. William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed. Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival.
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Oct 13, 2016 · Rating. 4. That’s not to say that Hag-Seed is perfect. Most troublingly, its title suggests that it’s all about Caliban, but the novel fails to live up to that promise in any compelling way....
Oct 28, 2016 · 301 pp. Hogarth Shakespeare. $25. Some years ago, the publishing company Hogarth announced a fascinating initiative: a series of novels based on Shakespeare’s most famous works. To date, eight...
Oct 28, 2016 · Hag-Seed is the latest in a series of novels from Hogarth Press in which leading writers rework Shakespeare, and it is far and away the most successful to date, in part because Atwood never...
