Shakespeare Revisited

For more than 400 years, Shakespeare’s works have been performed, read, recited, taught and loved around the world, and reinterpreted for each new generation, as films, plays, musicals or literary transformations. The Hogarth Shakespeare project is where the world’s favourite playwright meets today’s best-loved novelists – reimagining The Bard’s works for a contemporary readership. Here’s an introduction to the first five books in this ground-breaking series.

Hag-Seed

Margaret Atwood

The 'riotous, insanely readable' new novel from the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Shylock is My Name

Howard Jacobson

A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life.
The Gap of Time

Jeanette Winterson

A story of love and jealousy, tragedy and forgiveness, a lost child and a found family
Vinegar Girl

Anne Tyler

No one does family like Anne Tyler - and the Battistas might be her most appealing yet…the new novel from the bestselling author of A Spool of Blue Thread
New Boy

Tracy Chevalier

One of our most successful historical novelists transplants the tragedy of Othello to a playground in 1970s Washington D.C. : when a young black boy arrives at an all-white school, he finds himself at the centre of a web of jealousy, bullying and revenge.
Dunbar

Edward St Aubyn

Edward St Aubyn, ‘perhaps the most brilliant novelist of his generation’ (Alan Hollinghurst), takes on King Lear for the Hogarth Shakespeare series