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"Forbidden Planet" the classic science fiction film is famously a reworking of Shakeaspeare's "the Tempest" "West Side Story" is a re-imagining of "Romeo and Julliett" "Clueless" is aparody/reimagining of Jane Austen's Emma. Josepg Stephano, the scriptwriter for most of the episodes of the classic "Outer Limits" described the shows as "Shakeaspeare with a haircut" Which brings to mind what highbrow tale have you rewritten to confirm to Literotica.com's standards? I'l start my Story Stacy's Mom https://www.literotica.com/s/stacys-mom-4 is a reworking of Saki's somewhat obscure but utterly delightful "A Sacrifice To Necessity" They share the same elements, flapper daughter, MILF, scemeing bachelor and the MILF getting shagged in the end, but I put a spin on it Saki never could have (and be published in his day). What is your favorite literary desercration?
 
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The Third Ring was inspired by Loomis' story "The Man Who Married the Moon," which tells a Native American tale. It's retold in a SciFi setting and as an epic tragedy, and even borrows a scene.

"The Man Who Married the Moon" might not be great literature, but it's a fine story, and my version isn't really Litified. I wrote around the only sex scene that I considered putting in as it seemed unnecessary.
 
Clara and the solar system was inspired by Ishiguro's "Klara and the Sun". Not really in terms of plot, but in the idea of invented personalities and the themes of friendship, loneliness and the perpetual outsider.

Pygmalion 3.0 is very far from Bernard Shaw and Ovid plot-wise but inherits some ideas.

Eve & Lucy sees the students performing an Arthur Miller play and mirrors the playas exploration of the loss of innocence and rejection by a parent.

The Third Date - as is suggested by the subtitle "Clueless of Cotham" - is a very loose adaptation of Austen's Emma.

None are rewrites or even close parallels; they just borrow themes and plot devices.
 
Wifetheif said:
"Forbidden Planet" the classic science fiction film is famously a reworking of Shakeaspeare's "the Tempest" "West Side Story" is a re-imagining of "Romeo and Julliett" "Clueless" is aparody/reimagining of Jane Austen's Emma. Josepg Stephano, the scriptwriter for most of the episodes of the classic "Outer Limits" described the shows as "Shakeaspeare with a haircut" Which brings to mind what highbrow tale have you rewritten to confirm to Literotica.com's standards? I'l start my Story Stacy's Mom https://www.literotica.com/s/stacys-mom-4 is a reworking of Saki's somewhat obscure but utterly delightful "A Sacrifice To Necessity" They share the same elements, flapper daughter, MILF, scemeing bachelor and the MILF getting shagged in the end, but I put a spin on it Saki never could have (and be published in his day). What is your favorite literary desercration?
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@Wifetheif,
I haven't finished it yet but I'm in the process of a rather 'radical' re-imagining of Lewis' "Alice in Wonderland", literally tearing it up, Goth style, from start to end...!
Respectfully,
D.
 
TheRedChamber said:
My latest tale isnt rewritten, but does involve my characters re-enacting part of Wuthering Heights as a bdsm session.

https://literotica.com/s/her-only-master

Wuthering Heights is a rollercoaster melodrama of a novel filled with sizzling gypsies. It's not highbrow, it was just written quite a long time ago. People often get confused about that.
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Interesting. With a name like "Wuthering Heights" it certainly sounds like a highbrow story set in Victorian England.
 
I haven't written any, but this thread has inspired me to do a take on Don Quixote, except where Cervantes parodies medieval knight errant tales, I'd take on erotica tropes.

--Annie
 
Two from totally opposite ends of the spectrum of my output (and one hardly highbrow): Diddler on the Roof (a 750-word throw-away, curses to SS and his challenges) and House of Doors, my only (and impossible) try for a riff on Borges, specifically the Book of Sand.
 
The closest I've been to this is making notes to do some justice to Walter after reading My Secret Life, because I think he deserved one girl the most, and I really sympathized with him on that chapter, in spite of him being a red flag big enough to cover a truck. I've also outlined a chivalric novel, and while I used Amadis of Gaul as inspiration, it isn't related to it at all.

Treasure Island has been on my crosshairs for a while, but I haven't found the time (or haven't put the creative energy) to brainstorm that into an erotica.
 
KittyOfSteele said:
The closest I've been to this is making notes to do some justice to Walter after reading My Secret Life, because I think he deserved one girl the most, and I really sympathized with him on that chapter, in spite of him being a red flag big enough to cover a truck.
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Which one? I can recall four possibles, but clearly one stood out for you. It's a great idea, hope you give it a whirl.
 
Does my Re-working of Poe's "The Raven" count? It's not a rewriting of the original story so much as using the structure to tell it's own story. But now...you have me wanting to do more of a high brow remake as well. (Quoth) The Maiden, "I'm no whore"

I'm also starting a series of Shakespearan sonnets that will cover a variety of subjects/genres to let me plan in the categories that seem like fun (and potentially take requests some day). I'm even thinking of messing with adding acrostics to my sonnets just for the added giggles. They aren't great and I've only written one so far, but I'm not sure it's what you're talking about.

And finally I was thinking either for next year's Halloween Contest or maybe just for fun throughout the year of writing a story using the basic structure of Bram Stoker's Dracula - where the story comes out in a series of diary entries, newspaper articles, etc. It's just a seed of an idea right now, though, I just like the potential format of a series developing in this way.
 
Not highbrow, but I have a take on Pinocchio/Frankenstein where the marionette is a girl. It's told from her POV and there's a lingering question of whether she's sentient and encouraging the toymaker to give her a heart that works, or if he's just fucking insane and killing people for their heart to make her feel more human for himself.

It started with a poem.

The Creation's Lament (formerly A Fragile Mind)
 
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