![]() ![]() ![]() Soon he's directing them in scratch productions of the plays, rediscovering his own skill as he goes. Tiring of his isolation, Felix takes a job in a prison teaching Shakespeare to the inmates. (For now, if you'd like to refresh your Tempest knowledge, the plot is here.) But you don't need to be a Shakespeare geek like me to enjoy Hag-Seed it's a good story, and will introduce you to the play gently, with Felix himself as your guide. Hag-Seed, fourth in the Hogarth Shakespeare series of novels reworking the Bard's plays, is Margaret Atwood's take on The Tempest. Ousted from his long-held job at a prominent Canadian theater festival by the machinations of his trusted right-hand man Tony, Felix hits the road, drives for days and stops randomly at an abandoned shack in the midst of farmland, where he will spend the next 12 years. Take Felix Phillips, protagonist of Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed. But "isolate" and "island" come from the same Latin root, and the truth is that we make our own islands where we daily maroon ourselves. "No man is an island, entire of itself," John Donne famously reassured us in 1623, the same year Shakespeare's The Tempest was published in the First Folio. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Hag-Seed Author Margaret Eleanor Atwood ![]()
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