Hogarth Shakespeare | Huntsville Madison County

1) The gap of time: the Winter's tale retold

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A modern retelling of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" moves from London after the 2008 financial crisis to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia, in a story of the destructive effect of jealousy and the redemptive power of love.

2) Hag-seed

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Atwood, Margaret

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Hogarth Shakespeare

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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...

3) Shylock is my name

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Jacobson, Howard

4) Vinegar girl: The taming of the shrew retold

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Tyler, Anne

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Hogarth Shakespeare

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Anne Tyler's retelling of the Shakespeare play "The taming of the shrew."

5) Dunbar: King Lear retold

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St. Aubyn, Edward

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Hogarth Shakespeare

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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, an upscale sanatorium in rural England, with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills,...

6) New boy

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Chevalier, Tracy

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Starting his fifth school in five years, Osei Kokote, a diplomat's son, hoping to survive his first day becomes friends with Dee, the most popular girl in school, but Ian is determined to destroy the budding friendship.

7) Macbeth: William Shakespeare's Macbeth Retold: A Novel

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Nesbo, Jo

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Hogarth Shakespeare

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
Shakespeare’s dark and tragic play retold in a heart-pounding New York Times bestselling thriller from the author of The Snowman and The Thirst.

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,...