2021
"Their hour will be his hour" : Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed and the Conventions of Renaissance Revenge Plays
KRAJNÍK, Filip and Michaela WEISSBasic information
Original name
"Their hour will be his hour" : Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed and the Conventions of Renaissance Revenge Plays
Authors
KRAJNÍK, Filip (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Michaela WEISS (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies, Hradec Králové, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, University of Hradec Králové, 2021, 2336-3347
Other information
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
References:
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/21:00123760
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English
Margaret Atwood; Hag-Seed; William Shakespeare; The Tempest; revenge tragedy; early-modern English theatre
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Changed: 10/2/2022 21:39, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.
Abstract
In the original language
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.
Links
| MUNI/A/1446/2020, interní kód MU |
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