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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
Format: epub
Publisher: Canongate U.S.
Page: 224
ISBN: 1841957178, 9781841957173

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus, by Margaret Atwood, Read by Laural Merlington, Brilliance Audio, 2005. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Myths, The) – Margaret Atwood returns with a shrewd, funny, and insightful retelling of the myth of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope. 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. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. 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. I am rather rapidly making my way through Canongate's Myths series and just concluded another: Marget Atwood's The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus. The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus - Margaret Atwood Canangate Myths, 2005. 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. The maids are, in many ways, more of a counterpoint to Penelope's story than the original myth because they tell an alternate tale of life in Ithaca, waiting for Odysseus to come home. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood. As part of Canongate's 'Myths' series, Atwood was commissioned to re-tell a myth, and originally, she wrote, tried to re-write a Viking legend, before realising that she was “haunted” by the fate of the handmaids in the Odyssey, hanged arbitrarily by Telemachus, for having sex She decided that she would write a version of the tale which would address this problem, and tell Penelope's story as she waited and waited for Odysseus to come home from the Trojan War. It's their second run–last year's run sold out. This book was This one by Margaret is a bit of a different slant on the myth of Penelope and Odysseus. Availibility :Usually ships in 1-2 business days. This includes her 2006 book The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus, a wry retelling of the familiar story of Homer's Odyssey from the perspective of his wife, Penelope. Posted on December 14, 2012 | 13 Comments. Tonight I am thinking of Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad, a book I read just prior to Kundera's Identity. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Myths). I went to the opening night of Nightwood Theatre's production of The Penelopiad in January.