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Literary sub-genre: Novel or play retells a classic from the perspective of a secondary character or characters. The new story tracks the the original but shifts some of its action offstage. The two versions intertwine, each now commenting on the other.

Examples:
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard).
James (Percival Everett).

Are there others? There must be.

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@cstross @JamesGleick See The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, Lamb by Christopher Moore, and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (though the latter two arguably aren't retellings of specific works of fiction by others).

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@cstross @JamesGleick In the world of poetry, it might also be fun to look at Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" followed by Anthony Hecht's "The Dover Bitch".

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@JamesGleick @cstross Yes. I particularly like that Hecht takes an oblique approach. The response isn't written directly in the voice of the woman addressed in Arnold's poem, but presented as hearsay via a friend of hers. That probably enables a more cynical tone, defusing the brooding sincerity of the first poem.

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