It’s clever in a gentle and neat way, entertaining and readable, but does no ripping or roaring.Īt the centre of Atwood’s tale is Felix, who is, or at least sees himself as, our Prospero. Initially, I must confess to being slightly disappointed. With all this raw material to critique, twist and rework, I was expecting Shakespeare to get a well-deserved bashing from feminist legend Margaret Atwood. Hag-Seed reworks The Tempest, a play full of racism, misogyny, rape attempts, enslavement, dispossession and vast amounts of screaming patriarchal entitlement. Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood is one of a series of novels in which famous authors reimagine Shakespeare’s plays as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare Project released to commemorate the Bard’s 400th anniversary.
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