“The Play’s the Thing”: Re-imagining Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Forbidden Planet, Prospero’s Books and Hag-Seed

This paper examines a number of contemporary adaptations of The Tempest – Fred McLeod Wilcox’s Forbidden Planet (1956), Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books (1991) and Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed (2016) – which indicate new avenues for exploring the phenomenon of past-and-present re-bonding through...

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Main Author: Estella Ciobanu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bucharest University Press 2021-12-01
Series:University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series
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Online Access:https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/EstellaCiobanu.pdf