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by Madeline Miller

In an interview with Bustle, she said, "I’m working on a retelling of Shakespeare’s [The] Tempest right now. I’ve learned so much about storytelling from theater, and specifically from directing Shakespeare’s plays, and I always love working with his characters. That said, I think I’m drawn to The Tempest precisely because I wouldn’t want to direct it. The things I want to say about it need a novel, because I want to travel outside the bounds of the text."

Genres: Retellings, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Mythology, Adult, Fiction, Historical

Unknown Binding

About the author

Madeline Miller was born in Boston and grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. She attended Brown University, where she earned her BA and MA in Classics. For the last ten years she has been teaching and tutoring Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school students. She has also studied at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought, and in the Dramaturgy department at Yale School of Drama, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms. She currently lives in Cambridge, MA, where she teaches and writes. The Song of Achilles is her first novel.

Reviews

[— nova]

i will read anything this woman writes

[Ellie]

lol I asked Madeline Miller at a signing for Circe (back in April 2018) what she'd like to work on next and she said she was thinking about Shakespeare's The Tempest and the character of Caliban AND LO BEHOLD, SHAKESPEARE RETELLING AHOY

now we just have to wait till like 2023

[hillary]

Madeline Miller + Shakespeare? *screaming*

[Georgia]

Is this real??? Madeline Miller‘s take on The Tempest??? She’s really trying to come for my ENTIRE LIFE

[Lauren]

i swear to god if this is the hades and persephone one …..

[S]

I would trade my firstborn for this book

[Maisha Farzana]

Madeline Miller can break my heart a thousand times over AND I will still say "Thank you".

[Taylor]

So excited for Madeline Miller to ruin my life again!!

[Katerina T.]

GIVE IT TO ME

[Ishika]

I have been studying Tempest for 2 years for school and words can't explain how much I dislike that book (not because it's bad but because I read it for school without enjoying it). I hope this book replaces my hate for this book with love (doubtful but I trust MM with my whole heart).

[Mirta]

Madeline Miller?
To read.

[Nora Wu]

this woman is so talented I’d let her run me over with a bus and I’d still thank her

[Mere]

Did I add this to my list immediately? Yes, yes I did.

[ananya ྀི]

Um yes pls, Madeline Miller owns my soul.

[lavinia]

wait, i'm confused. is this the persephone book that was announced on the author's instagram or is this the tempest book? *hits tbr button anyway*

[urwa]

oh shit its the Shakespeare retelling!!

[Elizabeth Phelps · Rating 5 out of 5]

Please let this be real?!?!

[Cassian Grace]

Who knows what this is really about or when it will come out but if it's written by Madeline Miller then I'm automatically in

[Esha]

Just finished SOA. Cant wait to have my heart broken again.

[jules]

me: thank you for saving my life

madeline miller's persephone book: i'm literally an unfinished manuscript

[Beenish]

You bet, I'd read anything written by this woman.

[Paula M]

A PERSEPHONE BOOK?!

[Mi]

All I did was look up Madeline's profile while thinking "do we have a date for Tempest yet?" And here I am.

[☁︎]

please be the persephone one please be the persephone one please be the persephone one please be the persephone one

[Amna (semi-hiatus, I come on when I feel like it)]

Honestly, im not into Shakespeare (yet, you never know) but I will devour anything she writes

[a reader, sometimes]

i will read literally anything madeline miller writes bc this woman has a complete chokehold on me. she could write advertisements for laxatives and i would purchase packs & packs of them just to read what she came up with on the back of the packaging. i’m not even mad about it.

[curtis :)]

the TEMPEST? one of the only Shakespeare plays I actually like? *screams*

[Lily]

gimme gimme gimme

[Selina]

OH MY GODS! THE WAITING IS GONNA BE THE END OF ME