Classics Retold

Classics Retold works like this: stare agonized at the list of awesome books you could choose from because coming up with something on your own could potentially kill you, complain to all your friends that this is worse than playing 'Last Book Standing', take the plunge, pick a book, sign up before you can change your mind. After that, it's easy, read the book, then read or watch as many adaptions and as much related material as possible, and post reviews and thoughts throughout the month of September.

Sign ups are open through the 25th of May *wink wink nudge nudge*

I'm planning on doing a post covering a couple of the books I didn't pick because there's too many amazing books on the list not to mention at least a few of them. This post though, it's all about The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

I picked Jekyll and Hyde for a couple of reasons, primarily because it's on my TBR list for this year, but also because while I'm somewhat familiar with it and its adaptions, there's a lot I don't know anything about it, like for instance, the original plot. Along with this, I also wanted to pick something that had impacted or influenced by life in some way, or at the very least something that stood out to me in a significant way. Again, Jekyll and Hyde fit the bill. It sticks out most to me in conjunction with the poem If by Rudyard Kipling, not because the poem has any special significance but because it showed up in my favorite show to be spouted off by my favorite bad guy (possibly of all time), who in essence is Jekyll and Hyde.

Give my love for that particular episode, and for the character himself, I'll be rewatching quite a few Sanctuary episodes along with reading the Stevenson text for the first time.  Aside from that, what I'll be reading/watching will depend on what I can get my hands on while I'm travelling this summer, so instead of picking out set list of items, I'm leaving it more open ended.

ExcellentLibrary has been posting lists of some of the adaptions for books on the challenge list. I used her Jekyll and Hyde post as a jumping off point, then consulted wikipedia and google (one, two) and came up with the following list of items. This is by no means a complete list of what I found, just some of the more interesting ones.

• The original text
• Articles about Robert Lewis Stevenson, the time period, and his work
• Jekyll and Hyde: The True Story (2004)
• The Beast Within: Interpreting Jekyll and Hyde (Guardian article)
• Short films, single episodes, and short stories, poems, children's books and songs
• "Schizophrenia Blues" by The Beat Caroline (song) [2012]
• Wishbone - Dr Jekyll and Mr Dog (1998)
• Goosebumps - Jekyll and Heidi (1999)  -OR-  Goosebumps: Jekyll and Heidi by RL Stein
• Into the Labyrinth - Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde (1982) - UK children's show
• The Untold Story of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Francis Little [1890]
• ‘Mr Hyde Visits the Home of Dr Jekyll’ by John Kessel (Poem) [1989]
• Handle Carefully - short film
• Episodes from the Life of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2001) - short film
• Adaptions with both novel and film adaptions
• Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin [1990]*  -OR-  Mary Reilly (2006)
• Jacqueline Hyde by Robert Swindells [1996]  -OR- Jacqueline Hyde (2005)*
• Films
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1913)
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931)
• Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
• Le Cas etrange du Dr Jekyll et Miss Osbourne (1981)
• Jekyll and Hyde- The Musical (2001)
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2003) - Phillips
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
• Jekyll & Hyde (2006)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2008) - Barzman
• TV series/miniseries, radio series, and book series (multiple parts)
• The Strange Case of Dr. Hyde - BBC Radio Scotland
• Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde (1995)
• My Own Worst Enemy (2008)
• Do No Harm (2012) - NBC aired 2 eps, CTV possibly picked it up
• Hyde (Hyde #1) by Lauren Stewart [2012] (see also: Jekyll, an Urban Fantasy;  Strange Case)
• Books
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes by Loren D. Estleman [1980]
• Two Women of London. The Strange Case of Ms Jekyll and Mrs Hyde. by Emma Tennant [1989]
• Jekel loves Hyde, author Beth Fantaskey [2010]
• Adaptions that may be difficult to find
• Pussy Jekyll and Cat Hyde by Joyce Dunbar and Jill Barton - children's book
• Thomas Russell Sullivan's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - stage adaption
• Jekyll and Hyde [1997] - stage adaption
• The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde [2012] - graphic novel
• Le crime étrange de Mr Hyde by Jean-Pierre Naugrette [1998] - English translation
• Extras
• Ruffus the Dog- Dr Ruffus and Mr Snide (1998) -children's show
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Duck (1987) - Disney film
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1999) 
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2002) - Redfield
• Hulk (2003)
• Van Helsing (2004)
• Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004)
• Igor (2008)
• The Nutty Professor: The Animated Movie (2008)
• The Nutty Professor (1996) - rewatch
• Another Jekyll, Another Hyde (Another #3) by Daniel and Dina Nayeri [2012]
• Rewatches...?
• Sanctuary (misc eps Breach - Chimera)
• Jekyll (2007)
• Fight Club (1999)