Hogarth Shakespeare

Publisher Annotation: Now that Jeanette Winterson, Howard Jacobson, and Anne Tyler have all had a go at contemporizing Shakespeare via the "Hogarth Shakespeare" series, Man Booker Prize winner Atwood takes on The Tempest. Owing to a scheming assistant, Felix has lost his job as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival and finds himself in isolated southern Ontario, teaching Literacy Through Theatre to prisoners at the Burgess Correctional...

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies.  Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work – her pre-school charges adore her, but their parents don’t always appreciate her unusual opinions...

Othello retold as New Boy Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players - teachers and pupils...