Shakespeare in Modern Fiction
Explore the best modern fiction books inspired by Shakespeare's timeless works. Discover contemporary retellings, adaptations, and novels that reimagine the Bard's legacy in today's literary world.
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My Father Had a Daughter
by Grace Tiffany
In this wonderfully inventive novel, Grace Tiffany weaves fact with fiction to bring Judith Shakespeare to vibrant life. Through Judith's eyes, we glimpse the world …
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The Shakespeare Stealer
by Gary Blackwood
A delightful adveture full of humor and heart set in Elizabethan England! Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master …
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Ill Met by Moonlight
by Sarah A. Hoyt
This enchanting debut novel speculates on the identity of William Shakespeare's Dark Lady, and presents a world of fairies and fantasy that is the setting …
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All Night Awake
by Sarah A. Hoyt
Young Will Shakespeare is having a harder time making it in London than he thought he would, constantly competing with his greatest rival, Christopher Marlowe, …
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Any Man So Daring
by Sarah A. Hoyt
Acclaimed playwright William Shakespeare ventures back into the forest realm of the Elven king Quicksilver to rescue his son, only to discover that Quicksilver is …
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Nothing Like the Sun
by Anthony Burgess
Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.
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The Merchant of Vengeance
by Simon Hawke
Will, the fledgling playwright and poet, and Tuck, the would-be actor and rest-of-the-time ostler, have been enjoying their lives on and behind the stage...if only …
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The Players
by Stephanie Cowell
Presents a historical novel drawn from extensive research that traces the young Will's involvement in a tempestuous love triangle involving a lord and a mistress