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HELP - Revisionary Literature/Rewritings of Classic texts ?

Can anyone think of any novels/texts that are rewritings of 'classic' texts or make significant use of intertextuality?

The only examples I can think of off the top of my head are:

- Margaret Atwoods' 'The Penelopiad' which offers an alternate POV of The Odyssey
- Jean Rhys' 'Wide Sargasso Sea' which is a rewriting of Jane Eyre

I'm particularly interested in ones rewritten in the POV of a female character but all suggestions will be very helpful!

Thanks in advance :smile:

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minnieuk

Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca (Jane Eyre)
Brigitte Jones' Diary (Pride & Prejudice)
Segal - The Innocents (Edith Wharton's novel)
Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Hamlet)
Mister Pip (Great Expectations)
Mason's The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Atwood's The Penelopiad, Frazier's Cold Mountain, and Big Fish (The Odyssey)