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Prologue and Part 1, Chapter 1-5; Pages 3-28

The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. Hogarth Press, 2016. Paperback version.

• Hag-Seed opens on March 13, 2003, with a script in which an audience is settling into a theater where a film screening is happening. The house lights are dimming.

• The film begins with credits saying the play is being performed by the Fletcher Correctional Players.

• The play opens an announcer introducing the storm that opens the Tempest; the script calls for stock footage from various places, including the Weather Channel and ocean waves.

• The play begins, and the Boatswain and Sailors are lamenting the strength of the storm, and predicting that they will be drowned; the sailors speak in rhyme closer to modern rap music than to the Shakespearean language of the Tempest.

• Voices from off screen insist that they are royalty, then...

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