Alison Flood, The Guardian

May 28, 2014

Gone Girl author joins the likes of Margaret Atwood and Anne Tyler in series that rethinks Shakespeare’s stories ‘for contemporary readers’. 

Gillian Flynn, whose thriller Gone Girl explored a dark and twisted tale of revenge within a marriage, is set to give her own spin to perhaps the most famous story of revenge in literary history: Hamlet.

The American novelist has been signed up to retell the play which is often described as Shakespeare’s best as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series, which is asking major writers to reimagine Shakespeare “for contemporary readers”. With Scandinavian bestseller Jo Nesbo taking on Macbeth, Margaret Atwood The Tempest and Tracy Chevalier Othello, Flynn said that Hamlet had “long been a fascination of mine: murder, betrayal, revenge, deceit, madness ‒ all my favourite things.” […continued]

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