![]() ![]() After that, Felix throws himself into his work, trying to recreate “The Tempest” with a recasted Miranda as the star. “Hag-Seed” follows Felix, an artistic director at the Makeshiweg Theater Festival, who goes mad after his three-year-old daughter-Miranda-dies of meningitis. While the premise seems promising, “Hag-Seed” fails to deliver, overloading the novel with too many useless details and not enough emotional substance. ![]() ![]() Despite the temporal and geographical differences between them, the two literarily meet in Margaret Atwood’s “Hag-Seed,” a retelling of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” The reworking features prison inmates in its cast and a crazy, rejected theater director as its star. William Shakespeare is an English playwright from the Elizabethan Era, known as England’s national poet. Margaret Atwood is a contemporary author from Canada, known for her novels and her environmental activism. ![]()
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