El Hogarth Shakespeare project started with the aim of rewrite Shakespeare's literature for the public of the XXI century. It was part of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of his death in 2016. Those responsible knocked on the doors of renowned writers to propose to participate in a review of his most fundamental works.

The result began to be seen from 2015 and will last until 2021. Those authors were Margaret Atwood (The Tempest), Howard Jacobson (The merchant of Venice), Anne tyler (The Taming of the Shrew), Tracy chevalier (Othello), Jeanette Winterson (Winter's Tale), Gillian flynn (Hamlet) Y Edward St Aubyn (The Lear King) Y Jo Nesbø (Macbeth). This is a glimpse of what is already readable and yet to be published.

Hogarth Press

Virginia Wolf and her husband Leonard they founded the publishing house Hogarth Press en 1917 in their living room where they also printed. The house was Hogarth house and it was located in Richmond, London. The first works were his own, but the business grew and they began to publish works from the circle of intellectuals of Bloomsbury, of which they were part.

Published

Jeanette Winterson

Winterson launched the initiative with The gap of time, what version does he Winter's Tale. Shakespeare's classic tells the story of Leontes, king of Sicily, who rejects his wife Hermione blinded by jealousy. With her, Leontes will also lose his daughter Lost, of whom he denies, and his best friend, Polyxenes, King of Bohemia. Your decisions will make you spend the rest of your days consuming yourself in regrets.

Thus Winterson builds a novel by combining different micro-stories of those characters making them more extravagant, but with the same human desire to be able to rewrite that past to remedy mistakes.

Margaret Atwood

The acclaimed writer, so fashionable now, reinvents The Tempest en The witch's seed, a novel that talks about the power of words. Atwood proposes the story of Felix Fletcher a fifty-year-old who in his spare time dedicates himself to organize theater performances in jail.

The author Felix chooses is always Shakespeare and this year he proposes The Tempest. Through the universal words of a work that talks about the revenge Fletcher's inmates make it very personal. But Felix can also take revenge on whoever ruined him in the past on the day of the play's premiere.

Anne tyler

The author offers her vision of The Taming of the Shrew in this Vinegar heart. At the same time, it takes advantage to address two contemporary problems: the situation of the immigrant and the emancipation of women.

The protagonist is Kate battista, a woman apparently very sure of herself, but who is not so sure. The why is an eccentric family that he has to take care of, with a scientist father and a teenage sister and whimsical. In addition, in the kindergarten where he works things are not going well either. The children adore her, but her parents do not appreciate Kate's extreme sincerity in her opinions.

But one day it appears Pyoter Cherbakov, a researcher who helps his father in his laboratory. It is immigrant and your residence permit is about to expire and you will be kicked out of the country unless you have no family reasons to stay. But Dr. Battista has come up with an ingenious solution that Kate disagrees with.

Still to come

Tracy chevalier

With a publication date for this month, Chevalier presents a version of Othello en The new boy. The title refers to osei kokote, the son of a diplomat from Ghana, who begins the sixth year at school. We are in Washington in the 70s and Osei, in addition to trying to integrate and find friends, is the único black boy from school. Make friends with Dee, the most popular girl, but Ian, another of his companions, decides to break that friendship.

Jo Nesbø

Its publication in Spain is scheduled for the first of April. The Norwegian writer makes a version very in his darkest line of Macbeth, which set in a rainy industrial city and in the 70s. The protagonist is a police inspector, Macbeth, the best and most appreciated by his peers, but also the most ambitious, corrupt and paranoid, with problems with alcohol and drugs.

To its Power fight with his own colleagues, bosses and loyal friends he is joined in his fight machinations of the drug lords plus those of political shift. And if that were not enough, there is the relationship with his particular Lady Macbeth, his lover, who is the owner of a casino.

harry jacobson, Edward St Aubyn y Gillian flynn

Shylock is my name is this author's version of The merchant of Venice, which has not yet been posted here. And they are also pending Dunbar, The Lear King revisited by Edwart St. Aubyn, and Hamlet de Gillian flynn, which is scheduled for 2021.