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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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I can't offer suggestions as good as the others in this thread, but I can point out something that no one seems to have done yet, which is that there's a term for this: a "paraquel", which is technically a story running at the same time as another story (often, but not specifically, involving different characters' viewpoints).

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