@benschwartzy Good example.
Aside from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, what other cases are there of modern writers borrowing characters & stories from classics?
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@HeerJeet Chabon's Final Solution. Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Gardner's Grendel. Anything by Kim Newman.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Robert Nye wrote a novel based on the life of Falstaff... won the Hawthornden and Guardian Fiction Prizes 1976Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Tons. Just eg: Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (off Jane Eyre); Gardner, Grendel (Beowulf); Coetzee, Foe (Robinson Crusoe), &cThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea; Susan somebody's Foe...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet I bet if you google around tv tropes or wikipedia you'll get a long list w lots of questionable, but also lots of solid, examplesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Depending why you ask, this may be of interest: http://www.english.hawaii.edu/courses/description.php?course=5722 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Bunch listed here under lit: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LiteraryNecrophilia …, see also parent category http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DerivativeWorks … ...ok I'm going to stop now - End of conversation
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@HeerJeet Riordan's Percy Jackson series (YA), Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate (musical), Coetzee's Foe (1/2)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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