Writers of post-colonial fiction interact with the traditional colonial discourse, but modify or subvert it ; for instance by retelling a familiar story from the perspective of an oppressed minor character in the story.

** The Whole Works of Homer Prince of Poets by George Chapman ( 1616 ) a retelling of the Iliad and Odyssey in iambic rhyming couplets: the Iliad in iambic heptameter, and the Odyssey in iambic pentameter.

* The play entitled Esther ( 1960 ), written by Welsh dramatist Saunders Lewis, is a retelling of the story in Welsh.

He suggests that the story told to Herodotus could have been the result of almost two centuries of telling and retelling by Pyramid guides.

According to the urbane retelling of myth in Ovid's Metamorphoses, for a long time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus ' affairs by leading her away and flattering her.

Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, with a story capable of " seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others.

Embedded in Greek myth, there remain fragments of quite variant tales, hinting at the rich variety of myth that once existed, city by city ; but Hesiod's retelling of the old stories became, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus, the accepted version that linked all Hellenes.

* Omeros ( 1991 ), an epic poem by Derek Walcott, is in part a retelling of the Odyssey, set on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.

Though this defensive loophole slightly narrows the types of cases which may be prosecuted for perjury, the effect of this statutory defense is to promote a truthful retelling of facts by witnesses, thus helping to ensure the reliability of American court proceedings just as broadened perjury statutes aimed to do.

The Heliand, a verse epic of the life of Christ in a Germanic setting, and Genesis, another epic retelling of the events of the first book of the Bible, were commissioned in the early ninth century by Louis to disseminate scriptural knowledge to the masses.

Furthermore, Stockholm's raison d ' être, always was to be the Swedish capital and by far the largest city in the country, and, consequently, retelling the story of the city without including some of the history of Sweden is virtually impossible.

The young Tolkien attempted a retelling of the story of Kullervo from the Kalevala in the style of The House of the Wolfings ; Tolkien considered much of his literary work to have been inspired by an early reading of Morris, even suggesting that he was unable to better Morris's work ; the names of characters such as " Gandolf " and the horse Silverfax appear in The Well at the World's End.

This feature does not appear in stories about werewolves before the 19th century ( the claim that the Beast of Gévaudan, an 18th-century wolf or wolf-like creature, was shot by a silver bullet appears to have been introduced by novelists retelling the story from 1935 onwards and not in earlier versions ).

Simek additionally points out legendary parallels in a Bavarian legend of a shepherd who lives inside a tree, whose descendants repopulate the land after life there has been wiped out by plague ( citing a retelling by F. R. Schröder ).

This retelling eventually reveals the pigs to be attempting insurance fraud by blaming the wolf, who had asthma, for blowing their houses down.

* The Billion Dollar Boy by Charles Sheffield is a retelling of Captains Courageous in a futuristic science fiction setting.

The Seder is a ritual performed by a community or by multiple generations of a family, involving a retelling of the story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt.

The Scottish name Fingal () comes from a retelling of these legends in epic form by the 18th century poet James Macpherson.

In the episode " Margical History Tour ," Anne is portrayed by Otto Mann during Marge's retelling of Henry's reign.

* The 1917 story " Savonarola " Brown by Max Beerbohm concerns an aspiring playwright, author of an unfinished, unintentionally absurd retelling of the life of Savonarola.

* Cameron Dokey created ' Wild Orchid ' in 2009, a retelling of the Ballad of Mulan as part of the Once Upon A Time series of novels published by Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

Brenden Lehane's Book of Christmas opens with a brief retelling of the Nativity story told in the Gospels of Luke and Mark.

Sharon Penman's novel, Falls the Shadow, is a fictional retelling of de Montfort's life from his arrival in England to his death.

George, realizing he is doomed to a life of loneliness and despair like the rest of the migrant workers and wanting to spare Lennie a painful death at the hands of the furious and violent Curley, shoots Lennie in the back of the head before the mob can find him after George gives him one last retelling of their dream of owning their own land.

Simek additionally points out legendary parallels in a Bavarian legend of a shepherd who lives inside a tree, whose descendants repopulate the land after life there has been wiped out by plague ( citing a retelling by F. R. Schröder ).

In 1997, he composed a musical called Canticle of the Plains, a retelling of the life of St. Francis set in the Old West.

* Introducing Kafka, a graphic novel written by David Zane Mairowitz and illustrated by Robert Crumb, examines Kafka's life and work and includes a retelling of " A Hunger Artist ".

Cromer featured as the location for an episode of " An American In England ", written by Norman Corwin with the narrator staying in The Red Lion Hotel and retelling several local accounts of life in the town at wartime.

* Fanny, Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones ( 1980 ) ( a retelling of ' Fanny Hill ' by Erica Jong purports to tell the story from Fanny's point of view, with Cleland as a character she complains fictionalized her life ).

It is a retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, which had haunted Lewis all his life, and which is itself based on a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius.

The 2009 novel The Devil's Paintbrush by Jake Arnott involves a retelling of the life of Hector MacDonald, and includes the battle and Kitchener's railway-building drive through Sudan.

* In the television series Garrow's Law, a fictional retelling of the life of 18th Century barrister William Garrow, many of the scenes take place within the Old Bailey.

Anastasia premiered on November 14, 1997 in New York City, and was released on November 21, 1997 in the United States and, despite the objections of some historians to its fantastical retelling of the life of the Grand Duchess, enjoyed a positive reception from many critics.

Based on the book Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, Vagabond is a fictional retelling of the life of Miyamoto Musashi, often referred to as the " Sword Saint ", perhaps the most famous and successful of Japan's sword fighters.

The novel Godric ( 1981 ) by Frederick Buechner is a fictional retelling of his life and travels.

The contemporary film industry has many examples, in addition to " Star Wars ," of films that incorporate the retelling of tales from the life of Moses, of Christ and of Greek and Roman heroes.

" But the sea and maritime life are central to many of his poems, both short ( eg, " Erosion ," " Sea-Gulls ," " Silences ") and long, such as " The Cachalot " ( 1926 ), describing duels between a whale and its foes, a giant squid and a whaling ship and crew ; The Roosevelt and the Antinoe ( 1930 ), recounting the heroic rescue of the crew of a sinking freighter in a winter hurricane ; The Titanic ( 1935 ), an ironic retelling of a well-known marine tragedy ; and Behind the Log ( 1947 ), the dramatic story of the North Atlantic convoys during WWII.

A well-researched & lively retelling of the life of William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling.

The play is a modern retelling of the ancient Greek Orpheus legend and deals, in the most elemental fashion, with the power of passion, art, and imagination to redeem and revitalize life, giving it new meaning.

His literary retelling of the events and attitudes towards the Battle of the Somme and life in the trenches is highly acclaimed and is often likened to the work of writers such as Erich Maria Remarque and Ernest Hemingway, providing a modern contrast to World War I literature.

They claimed to be angered by the help provided by the institute's staff ( in translating manuscripts ) to a Western writer, Dr. James Laine, who discussed the telling and retelling of stories about Shivaji's parentage and life in his book on narrations of the Shivaji story.

Images of deities can be used as teaching tools when depicting the life ( or lives ) of the Buddha, describing historical events concerning important Lamas, or retelling myths associated with other deities.

This segment is a retelling of the story of John Chapman, who spent most of his life roaming Mid-Western America ( mainly Illinois and Indiana ) in the pioneer days, and planting apple trees, thus earning his famous nickname.