Ha escrito novelas de diferentes géneros, libros de poemas y también escribió guiones para televisión. Fue pronto una ávida lectora de todo tipo de literatura, desde novelas de misterio, hasta cuentos de los hermanos Grimm, historias sobre Canadá y comics. Debido a la investigación que llevaba a cabo su padre sobre entomología forestal Atwood pasó gran parte de su infancia entre el norte de Québec, Ottawa y Toronto. Es la segunda de los tres hijos de Carl Edmund Atwood, zoólogo, y Margaret Dorothy William, nutricionista. Prolífica poetisa, novelista, crítica literaria y activista política, reconocida nacional e internacionalmente por su obra. Margaret Atwoods novel take on Shakespeares play of enchantment, revenge and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own. Its magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall? Here, Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. And also brewing revenge.Īfter twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda.

Now hes staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. His productions have amazed and confounded. Definitely revenge.įelix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. Shakespeare's play of magic and illusion reimagined by one of the world's great literary innovators.

The tempest margaret atwood