This summer join the Middletown Free Library book discussion series to talk about books based on works by William Shakespeare. The chosen titles revisit and reinvent Shakespeare in a contemporary time and style. Come explore the works of current novelists and their Shakespearian twists!
Wednesday, July 20 @ 6:30 PM - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski
The New York Times Best Selling novel is a retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in rural Wisconsin.
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Wednesday, August 17 @ 6:30 PM - A Thousand Acres: A Novel by Jane Smiley
The Pulitzer Prize winning novel is a contemporary deconstruction of Shakespeare’s King Lear and is set on a thousand acre farm in Iowa that is owned by a family and his three daughters.
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Wednesday, September 21 @ 6:30 PM - Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
This novel brings in various elements from and is a perfect prequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
