The Victorian poet Tennyson based his retelling of the legends in the Idylls of the King primarily on Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and the Mabinogion, but with many expansions, additions, and several adaptations, a notable example of which is the fate of Guinevere.

Rick Geary's Jack the Ripper story in a 1995 volume of his A Treasury of Victorian Murder is a straighter retelling.

The interpolated story in chapter 33 of Part four of the First Part is a retelling of a tale from Canto 43 of Orlando, regarding a man who tests the fidelity of his wife.

General retelling of classic tale.

Michael G. Thomas-Black Legion: Gates of Cilicia-A science fiction retelling of the tale of the Anabasis.

Ovid works his way through his subject matter, often in an apparently arbitrary fashion, by jumping from one transformation tale to another, sometimes retelling what had come to be seen as central events in the world of Greek mythology and sometimes straying in odd directions.

The film is a modern sci-punk retelling of the tale of Sleeping Beauty, with a twist.

Among the interpolated stories within Don Quixote is a retelling of a tale from canto 43 regarding a man who tests the fidelity of his wife.

* Firebird ( Lackey novel ), a novel retelling the Russian folk tale, by Mercedes Lackey

Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion.

* Mercedes Lackey's novel of Stravinsky's Firebird features Katschei as the main villain, retelling the classic tale for a modern audience.

* In 1935 Stanley Holloway recorded a humorous retelling of the tale as St. George and the Dragon written by Weston and Lee

In this retelling of a Maasai tale, a mongoose helps an ostrich get her chicks back from the lonely lioness who has stolen them.

A retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying habit.

** A 1987 live-action musical film, a fairly direct retelling of the fairy tale, starring Amy Irving as the miller's daughter and Billy Barty as the title character.

* " Little Red Riding Hood " – In a filmed bit, Cleese as Little Red Riding Hood endures a fractured retelling of the classic fairy tale.

Sharlto Copley was recently named as the male lead for Stromberg's live action retelling of the Sleeping Beauty tale.

* Von dem Fischer un syner Fru ( Of the fisherman and his wife ; the German-language title is in dialect ): a fairy tale by Philipp Otto Runge with seven pictures by Marcus Behmer, and a retelling and afterword by Uwe Johnson ( 1976 )

H. G. Wells ' The Invisible Man has as its basis a retelling of the tale of The Ring of Gyges.

Lancelot's encounter with Leyse of the lios alfar, her hopeless love for him and subsequent departure by boat for the lios alfar's home in the West is a retelling of the tale of Lancelot and Elaine.

" Another video " retelling of the tale casts Peter as a Christian preacher singing songs about God and Jesus.

During the UPA television era came Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, an abbreviated but largely faithful retelling of Charles Dickens's tale.

* White As Snow ( 2000 ) ( a retelling of the fairy tale Snow White )

The chivalric romance Sir Orfeo, retelling the story of Orpheus as a king rescuing his wife from the fairy king, shows so many motifs in common with this tale that it appears to have been a major influence on it.

* 2007 a contemporary retelling of the tale was made into a movie in Venezuela, with the title Cyrano Fernández.

An alternate retelling of the tale behind the unique corps-badge, as given by Sherman in his Memoirs:

After several years of directing primarily lower-key live-action films, Hideaki Anno formed his own production studio and revisited his still-popular Evangelion franchise with the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, a new series of films providing an alternate retelling of the original story.

In literature, the myth was not only the basis for a retelling such as " Contendings "; it also provided the basis for more distantly related stories.

The manga later served as the basis for a feature-length film adaptation, a 31-episode anime series retelling the film's story, and two original video animations.

This retelling by Louis Zara of the brief, anguished life of Stephen Crane -- poet and master novelist at 23, dead at 28 -- is in novelized form but does not abuse its tragic subject.

The book itself went on to inspire the plot for a wide array of novels, from Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur ( 1880 ), a Science Fiction retelling in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, to Stephen Fry's contemporary The Stars ' Tennis Balls,

In an Adventure with Scientists, Harry Potter Film Wizardry, The Golden Compass: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion, Mary Poppins: Anything Can Happen if You Let It ( with Michael Lassell ) and a retelling of 50 Favourite Bible Stories selected and read on CD by Cliff Richard and illustrated by Stephen Waterhouse.

One episode of the sitcom Family Guy featured Peter retelling some stories of Stephen King.

* " Somewhere Far Beyond " is a retelling of Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three.

Written by iconic pulp-fiction novelist Hank Janson ( pseudonym of Stephen D. Frances ) and published in 1958, the book is a dramatic retelling of Jack Spot ’ s extraordinary career in organized crime between the 1930s and 1950s.

With the success of Eric Idle's musical retelling of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, called Spamalot, Idle announced that he would be giving Life of Brian a similar treatment.

* The Wiz, a 1974 musical retelling of L. Frank Baum's story

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

One of the most successful shows to play the New Theatre opened 30 June 1960, it was Lionel Bart's musical retelling of Charles Dickens ' Oliver Twist, Oliver !.

His last projects included designing the sets for a musical version of his book The Trip ( which would later become the stage production Captain Louie ), designing a poster for The New Theater of Brooklyn, and writing and illustrating a retelling of the folktale “ The Giant Turnip .” He never married and often said that his children were his characters.

The company has also presented several world premieres, including most notably Meltdown, John Lazarus's astonishing retelling of the myth of Daedalus, Icarus and the Minotaur ; the collectively created community play about Kingston's social stratification, Princess Street: The Great Divide ; Fred Euringer's Night Noises, about a nineteenth-century nutritionist who connived at the starvation deaths of his own children, and Craig Walker's Chantecler, a musical based loosely on the play by Edmond Rostand and his Finnegans Wake: a dream play, an innovative adaptation from the novel by James Joyce which enjoyed a successful run not only in Kingston, but at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.