6/10/2023 0 Comments Tempest hagseed![]() Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the novel’s form, namely what specific transformation the poetics of the text undergoes due to its transfer from one genre to another. ![]() The article focuses on the analysis of the interpretation that Shakespeare’s text gains in Atwood’s novel. Thus, Atwood’s novel is a story about a man who directs a play about a man (Prospero) who in his turn is the director of everything what happens in ‘The Tempest’Atwood’s novel is a multilayered text which has Shakespeare’s play as an intertext. ‘’The Hag-Seed’’ (2016) is a postmodern interpretation of Shakespeare’s last play ‘’The Tempest’ by a famous contemporary Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.Prospero, the protagonist of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ is represented by a 21 st century theatre director Felix Philips, who twelve years after being removed from the theatre by his trusted colleague, gets a job teaching Literacy in the Fletcher County Correctional Institution and directs Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ which is performed by the prisoners. Shakespeare, Atwood, ‘’The Tempest’’, postmodernism, ‘’The Hag-Seed’’ Abstract ![]()
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