Hag-Seed
by Margaret Atwood · 2016
Difficulty
intermediate
Length
medium
Reading Time
6–8 hours
About the Book
Atwood reimagines Shakespeare's The Tempest through Felix, a theatre director seeking revenge by staging the play inside a prison literacy program.
Why You Should Read It
Read it for a clever, theatrical novel about revenge, grief, art, imprisonment, and the transformative power of performance.
Who This Book Is For
For readers who enjoy Shakespeare retellings, literary adaptations, theatre stories, and novels that balance wit with emotional repair.
About the Author
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic whose work explores power, gender, memory, survival, and the fragile edges of society. Her fiction moves between literary realism, historical fiction, speculative fiction, and dystopian imagination.
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