I know you are as excited as I am to hear that we are doing this again!!! We are pairing Shakespeare plays with novels inspired by them and doing two-month periods so technically this challenge goes mid-way through 2023. We’ll see what happens!!
Jan-Feb: Lear + “Fool” by Christopher Moore
Mar-Apr: Hamlet + “Something Rotten” by Alan Gratz
May-June: Macbeth + “The Talented Mr. Ripley” by Patricia Highsmith
July-Aug: Merchant of Venice + “Shylock is My Name” by Howard Jacobsen
Sept-Oct: Twelfth Night + “The Madness of Love” by Katherine Davies
Nov-Dec: Taming of the Shrew + Midsummer Night’s Dream + “Wise Children” by Angela Carter
Jan-Feb: A Winter’s Tale + “Gap of Time” by Jeannette Winterson
Mar-Apr: The Tempest + “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
May-June: Romeo + Juliet + “These Violent Delights” by Chloe Gong (YA)