There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of William Shakespeare adaptations in literature, but every once in awhile, one comes along that really reimagines the Bard's original works in such a remarkable ...

Discuss what myths are and their importance. Watch video clips to identify how and why three modern-day writers reinterpret myths to reflect contemporary themes and points of view. Rewrite a myth in ...

Beowulf is one of the oldest and most translated pieces of Old English literature. If you ever had to study it in high school, it’s likely the weighty poetics and narrative detours bogged down your ...

"You know the tale! Everything that happened on the island, the big arghhh – the beasts?" Peacock has unveiled their official trailer for an animated retelling of the dinosaur classic Jurassic Park, ...

Jurassic Park came out 30 years ago, but it remains a perfect, timeless blockbuster. That’s why we hope no one ever does something silly like try and remake it. At least not with humans. We’re totally ...

Sometimes a story is just so dang good, it bears repeating. From James Joyce’s Ulysses to Bridget Jones’s Diary, you’ve probably read a book that was just a modern retelling of a well-established ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The Fetzer Institute announces the publication of Retelling Sacred Stories: Our Journeys to a Shared Sacred Story, a groundbreaking, multi-faith collaboration five years in the ...

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