Shakespeare Retellings
The bard's stories, but different.
created by kathytrithardt
last updated August, 2026
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have you read private rites?? that’s also apparently based on king lear!
I'll add it!
Dating Dr. Dil is loosely based on a Shakespeare play. I can't remember which one. It's a romcom and first in the trilogy "If Shakespeare was an Auntie" that are all based (loosely) on Shakespeare plays
Added! Thank you so much!
Just found your list. I'm making one called Bardolatry that I started putting retellings on that I've read. We should compare notes so you can grab the fictional retellings and I'll do the non-fiction. I'll send a list of what I've got that you don't have✌️
Miranda and Caliban by Jacqueline Carey, Juliet by Anne Fortier, Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid, Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike, Sycorax by Nydia Hetherington, Fair Rosaline by Natasha Solomons, All Our Yesterdays by Joel H. Morris, Thus With a Kiss I Die by Christina Dodd, The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II by Noah Lukeman, Learwife by J R Thorpe
Thanks so much for this list! I'll add them now ☺️
Thoughts Be Bloody by Auden Patrick is a Hamlet retelling🧚♀️
Adding now!
Do you have any favourites that you’d recommend?💖
My top 3 (today) are: The Last True Poets of the Sea The King of Infinite Spaces The Death I Gave Him
This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amar El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, I think is a nod to the feud between Montagues and Capulets, that whole Red and Blue business?
I can see an argument for that, but I think it might be a little thin in terms of adding it to this list. I like that lens, though!
That makes sense! As I was typing out the recommendation I was realizing it might not be close enough to a retelling.
