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The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus Margaret Atwood ebook
ISBN: 1841957178, 9781841957173
Format: epub
Page: 224
Publisher: Canongate U.S.

The play, scripted by Margaret Atwood and based on her witty and troubling novella of the same name, retells the myth of Odysseus–only from the perspective of the Ancient Greek hero's overlooked wife, Queen Penelope. It's their second run–last year's run sold out. I went to the opening night of Nightwood Theatre's production of The Penelopiad in January. Breaking the silence of Penelope is not the only purpose of Margaret Atwood's play The Penelopiad. Others, like Su Tong, Margaret Atwood mixes both of these methods together as she rewrites the tale of Odysseus from the viewpoint of his wife Penelope in 'The Penelopiad'. Book – Penelopiad – The Myth Of Penelope and Odysseus. Left alone for twenty years when I originally 'picked up' (i.e. In The Penelopiad, she focuses on the terrible fate of Penelope's twelve maids, strung up by the neck by Odysseus and his son Telemachus once they have butchered Penelope's 120 suitors who endlessly harassed her in the 20 years of Odysseus' absence. The Penelopiad presents Penelope as a clever, witty and opinionated woman – for example, when she encounters Odysseus in disguise and recognises him immediately:. I liked the subversive After Atwood's The Penelopiad, I'm reading Jeanette Winterson's Weight and Karen Armstrong's A Short History of Myth, another title in the Canongate Myth series. Some, like Ali Smith, have rewritten a myth in modern language and placed the action in the present. Loaded up on my eReader) The Penelopiad because it combined two of my favourite bookish things of 2013 so far: Margaret Atwood and twists on Greek mythology. Written by Margaret Atwood Libri Reviewed by Jodie Authors taking part in the Canongate myths series have reinvented their chosen stories in a number of ways. The story of Penelope – as told by herself. "In Homer's account in The Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Cover of "The Penelopiad: The Myth of Pen.