KRAJNÍK, Filip and Michaela WEISS. “Their hour will be his hour”: Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed and the Conventions of Renaissance Revenge Plays. Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies. Hradec Králové: Univerzita Hradec Králové, 2021, vol. 8, No 1, p. 80-86. ISSN 2336-3347.
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Original name “Their hour will be his hour”: Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed and the Conventions of Renaissance Revenge Plays
Authors KRAJNÍK, Filip and Michaela WEISS.
Edition Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies, Hradec Králové, Univerzita Hradec Králové, 2021, 2336-3347.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Organization unit Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Keywords in English Margaret Atwood; Renaissance Revenge Plays; Shakespeare; The Tempest
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Abstract
Although an openly radical re-imagination of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed (2016) is in many ways faithful to the Renaissance roots of its model. Streamlining the convoluted plot of the original and narrating it chiefly from the perspective of the story’s protagonist, Felix Phillips (the “Prospero” of the novel), Atwood’s text is centred on the motifs of (in)justice and personal revenge. This article argues that to emphasise her interpretation of the Shakespeare play, Atwood employs a number of conventional elements of Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge plays – such as the metatheatrical techniques, the strong character of the avenger, the presence of the ghost and the avenger’s death – making her novel not only a modernised version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, but also a revival, of a kind, of a whole dramatic genre, whose popularity peaked in the late 16th and early 17th centuries and whose conventions permeate the structure of Hag-Seed’s narrative.
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