List of modernized retellings of old stories
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Sometimes, an author will write a story that is consciously based on an older story but with a modernized setting and characters.
These include:
- 10 Things I Hate About You - William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew re-located to modern suburbia
- Clueless - based on Jane Austen's Emma but set in modern California among valley girls
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens' Great Expectations set in modern Florida
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare's Hamlet set in modern Manhattan
- O - retelling of William Shakespeare's Othello in a private school
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Homer's Odyssey adapted to the 1920s American South
- Romeo + Juliet - William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet adapted for modern California; used mostly the original dialogue
- Scotland, PA - William Shakespeare's Macbeth set in a fast food restaurant in Scotland, Pennsylvania