| Text / Author |
Predecessor |
Date |
| Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys |
Jane Eyre |
1966 |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead / Tom Stoppard |
Hamlet |
1967 |
| Flashman / George MacDonald Fraser |
Tom Brown’s Schooldays |
1969 |
| A Tempest / Aimé Césaire |
The Tempest |
1969 |
| Grendel / John Gardner |
Beowulf |
1971 |
| The Mists of Avalon / Marion Zimmer Bradley |
Morte d’Arthur; Arthurian Legend |
1982 |
| Estella, Her Expectations / Sue Roe |
Great Expectations |
1982 |
| Desdemona—If You Had Only Spoken! / Christine Brückner (trans. 1993) |
Othello; Agamemnon; others |
1983 |
| Cassandra / Christa Wolf |
Iliad; Oresteia |
1983 (trans. 1984) |
| Foe / J. M. Coetzee |
Robinson Crusoe; Roxana |
1986 |
| “Stowaway,” in A History of World in 10½ Chapters / Julian Barnes |
Genesis Flood Narrative |
1989 |
| The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf / Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith |
“The Three Little Pigs” |
1989 |
| Two Women of London: The Strange Case of Ms. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde / Emma Tennant |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
1989 |
| Mary Reilly / Valerie Martin |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
1990 |
| Indigo / Maria Warner |
The Tempest |
1992 |
| “Gertrude Talks Back” / Margaret Atwood |
Hamlet |
1992 |
| Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West / Gregory Maguire |
The Wizard of Oz |
1995 |
| Caliban’s Hour / Tad Williams |
The Tempest |
1995 |
| The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein / Theodore Roszak |
Frankenstein |
1995 |
| The Red Tent / Anita Diamant |
Genesis 34 |
1997 |
| Mr. Dalloway / Robin Lippincott |
Mrs. Dalloway |
1999 |
| Ahab’s Wife, or, The Star-Gazer / Sena Jeter Naslund |
Moby-Dick |
1999 |
| Lo’s Diary / Pia Pera |
Lolita |
1999 |
| Gertrude and Claudius / John Updike |
Hamlet |
2000 |
| “Small Blue Thing” / Madison Smartt Bell |
“The Raven” |
2000 |
| Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister / Gregory Maguire |
Cinderella |
2000 |
| Troy / Adèle Geras |
The Iliad |
2000 |
| The Wind Done Gone / Alice Randall |
Gone with the Wind |
2001 |
| The Third Witch / Rebecca Reisert |
Macbeth |
2001 |
| Lamb: The Gospel Acc. to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal / Christopher Moore |
The New Testament |
2002 |
| Adèle / Emma Tennant |
Jane Eyre |
2002 |
| Dating Hamlet: Ophelia’s Story / Lisa Fiedler |
Hamlet |
2002 |
| Mr. Timothy / Louis Bayard |
Great Expectations |
2003 |
| Ahab’s Bride / Louise Gouge |
Moby-Dick |
2004 |
| March / Geraldine Brooks |
Little Women |
2004 |
| My Jim / Nancy Rawles |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
2005 |
| The Penelopiad / Margaret Atwood |
The Odyssey |
2005 |
| Weight / Jeanette Winterson |
Greek Myth of Atlas |
2005 |
| Ithaka / Adèle Geras |
The Odyssey |
2005 |
| “Horatio’s Version” / Margaret Atwood |
Hamlet |
2006 |
| Ophelia / Lisa Klein |
Hamlet |
2006 |
| Romeo’s Ex: Rosalind’s Story / Lisa Fiedler |
Romeo and Juliet |
2006 |
| Finn / Jon Clinch |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
2007 |
| Bunbury / Tom Jacobsen |
Importance of Being Earnest |
2008 |
| Imoinda, or She Who Will Lose Her Name / Joan Anim-Addo |
Oroonoko |
2008 |
| Lavinia / Ursula K. Le Guin |
Aeneid |
2008 |
| Lady Macbeth / Susan Fraser King |
Macbeth |
2008 |
| Lady Macbeth’s Tale / Maggie Power |
Macbeth |
2008 |
| A Lion Among Men / Gregory Maguire |
The Wizard of Oz |
2008 |
| Fool / Christopher Moore |
King Lear |
2009 |
| Ransom / David Malouf |
The Iliad |
2009 |
| Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales / Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling |
Various Fairy Tales |
2009 |
| King of Ithaka / Tracy Barrett |
The Odyssey |
2010 |
| Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles / Kim Newman |
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
2011 |
| The Song of Achilles / Madeline Miller |
The Iliad |
2012 |
| Havisham / Ronald Frame |
Great Expectations |
2013 |
| Longbourn / Jo Baker |
Pride and Prejudice |
2013 |
| Hyde / Daniel Levine |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
2014 |
| Juliet’s Nurse / Lois Leveen |
Romeo and Juliet |
2014 |
| The Serpent of Venice / Christopher Moore |
Othello, Merchant of Venice |
2014 |
| Ruth’s Journey: A Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind / Donald McCaig |
Gone with the Wind |
2014 |
| Thornfield Hall / Jane Stubbs |
Jane Eyre |
2014 |
| The Meursault Investigation / Kamel Daoud |
The Stranger |
2015 |