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.
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- 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
- Crime and Punishment in Suburbia - Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment set in a suburban high school.
- 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 1930s American South
- Scrooged - Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol set in 1980s Manhattan.
- 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
- She's the Man - William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will re-located to modern suburbia
- Tromeo and Juliet - A modern, punk adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- Bridget Jones's Diary - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
- She's All That - Pygmalion
- She's the Man - Twelfth Night
- Ever After - Cinderella
