A review by carlyoc
That Way Madness Lies: Fifteen of Shakespeare's Most Notable Works Reimagined by Dahlia Adler

adventurous dark funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

 I think I would have appreciated this more if I was familiar with more of Shakespeare's works. The only ones I really know well are A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet, so those were the only ones where I was able to truly appreciate the parts where the authors called back to the original story and the places where they deliberately departed from it.
Some of my favorite stories were the contemporary hurricane retelling of The Tempest, "Severe Weather Warning" by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka; a version of The Taming of the Shrew where people can only see the world in black and white until they meet their soulmate, "Taming of the Soulmate by K. Ancrum, an imagining of what it would be like to be the dark-skinned stolen child of the fair-skinned fairies of A Midsummer Night's Dream, "King of the Fairies" by Anna-Marie McLemore; and a vampire retelling of Hamlet, "Alsinar" by Patrice Caldwell. 
There was diverse representation of characters who were trans, asexual, nonbinary, etc. 

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