Today on GPL Lunch Break (LIVE on Facebook!) we discussed Shakespeare plays and adaptations in honor of the upcoming Ides of March! The Ides of March (March 15th) was the day Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC, the conspiracy that Shakespeare recounts in his tragic play. If you’d like to read more about the Ides of March (and reasons to beware it) take a look at this article from Smithsonian.com: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/top-ten-reasons-to-beware-the-ides-of-march-8664107/
And here are some Shakespeare adaptations, you should check out!
Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood (The Tempest)
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler (Taming of the Shrew)
Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E.K. Johnston (A Winter’s Tale)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Hamlet)
Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray (Hamlet)
The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters (Hamlet)
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (King Lear)
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (King Lear)
Speak Easy Speak Love by McKelle George (Much Ado About Nothing)
Bright Smoke, Cold Fire by Rosamund Hodge (Romeo and Juliet)
Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay (Romeo and Juliet)