AustLit
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Below is a selection of tales that appropriate 'Shakespeare' in some way. This includes tales set specifically in Shakespearean England, Shakespeare as protagonist, narratives about other plays of Shakespeare not included in the menu on the left, as well as narratives that use Shakespearean plays as subtle intertexs.
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See full AustLit entry'Cold Iron is set in a fairytale world---a kind of parallel Elizabethan period. It is based on the English fairytale Tattercoats (which is a kind of Cinderella story) and Shakespeare's beautiful play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. It enters the fairy kingdom of Titania and Oberon, and takes the reader into the vivid world of Elizabethan England. Tattercoats is the neglected, beautiful grand-daughter of the rich Baron of Fisher Forest, who is inconsolable because of his daughter's death in bearing Tattercoats.
(...more)This novel is influenced by A Midsummer Night's Dream, and is set in a parallel Elizabethan England.
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This image has been sourced from author's emailSee full AustLit entry'THE DIARY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, GENT is part comedy, part love story, the threads of Shakespeare's life drawn from his plays.
Could the world's greatest writer truly put down his pen forever to become a gentleman?
'He was a boy who escaped small town life to be the most acclaimed playwright of the land. A lover whose sonnets still sing 400 years later; a glover's apprentice who became a gentleman.
'But was he happy with his new riches? Who was the woman he truly loved?
The world knows the name of William Shakespeare.
(...more)Shakespeare is the protagonist of this novel. It contains descriptive material of the Elizabethan era.
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'The London home of Matthew Ashby is visited by the beautiful, famous half-Venetian musician, Emilia Lanier, begging him for help. A young Venetian girl, Sarah, has been accused of witchcraft by a wealthy merchant's wife, and has since disappeared. Is she in hiding? Or worse - kidnapped or murdered? So with his daughter, Celia, and his clerk, Ned, Matthew Ashby sets off for Venice and into a greater mystery than could ever be imagined. They must draw on all their wits and ingenuity to find allies in unexpected places. (...more)See full AustLit entryThe sequel to The Tempestuous Voyage of Hopewell Shakespeare, this novel is inspired by Shakespeare'sThe Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet.
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'Toby is the orphaned nephew of the Theo Tridlingham, leader of a motley, down-at-heel troupe of actors touring Louisiana. They had hoped for great things in New Orleans during the Carnival. Instead a spiv has taken their money but booked them remote venues in the countryside. On Christmas Eve, the company straggle away from yet another seedy, unwelcoming town and are caught in a rainstorm. They shelter in a crumbling mansion named Illyria, occupied only by an enigmatic black woman, Marie LaRoche, and her mistress, a spirited Creole girl, Isabelle de Casteljaloux. (...more)See full AustLit entryThis work is influenced by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
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See full AustLit entryThe unpredictable Penny Pollard is back and this time she's loose in England. Accompanied by her friend Alistair and his mother (the long-suffering chaperone), she looks for the Loch Ness Monster, discovers a new and not-so-mysterious meaning for Stonehenge, and makes lots of new friends from all over the world (including the irritating, maddening, kleptomaniacal Heidi). Somehow, between adventures and sightseeing, she finds time to write, and her personal diary, letters, miscellaneous notes and snapshots have all been preserved for posterity and to the delight of would-be rebellious heroines everywhere.
(...more)One of Penny's assignments involves researching and writing about famous English historical sites and persons; Penny investigates Shakespeare and visits Stratford-on-Avon, England.
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'Hopewell Shakespeare is a young apprentice in London. He is besotted with the Globe where the plays of his distant cousin, William, fuel his fantasies of love and fortune. He joins the crew of a pirate, Captain Wolfe, on The Golden Dragon, searching for the legendary Lost Island ruled by the Lord of Alchemists. But Hopewell is suspicious of the second mate Davy Jones and the ship's boy Kit Sly, and beset by visions of a beautiful woman and predictions of a White Ship. When the Golden Dragon pursues and is wrecked by such a ship, Hopewell seems to be sole survivor, cast up on an island inhabited only by an elderly scholar, Dr Prosper Bonaventure, a girl, Flora, and her goat, Caprice. (...more)See full AustLit entryThis novel has been influenced by A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest.
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Image courtesy of publisher's website.'When mysterious Oliver Parry walks into the King's Company's rehearsal rooms to audition for Hamlet, Millie Osborne is intrigued. Why is he so secretive? What is his interest in the Company? When Millie investigates, she uncovers a tale of secret identities, betrayal, lies, revenge ... and perhaps even murder.' (From the publisher's website.) (...more)See full AustLit entryThis novel features a production of Hamlet.
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Image courtesy of publisher's website.'Undine isnt your ordinary teenage girl. She doesnt like Tuesdays, has a best friend named Trout, and can cause storms to form out of thin air. She comes from a tight-knit family that includes her mother, brother, and aunt. She has always been told that her father died before she was born but a mysterious whispering voice convinces her that he is still alive. Trout, thanks to his love of Shakespeare, links the words that the voice is speaking with The Tempest. After the book itself appears in her house, Undine figures out where the voice is calling from and goes to meet her father. (...more)See full AustLit entryFeatures a character who enjoys Shakespeare, particularly the play The Tempest.
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