List of modernized retellings of old stories

Sometimes, an author will write a story that is consciously based on an older story but with a modernized setting and characters.

Films

*"10 Things I Hate about You" - William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" re-located to modern suburbia
*"A Midsummer Night's Rave" - William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" set in the rave scene
*"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"
*"Ever After" - "Cinderella"

Novels

*"Tam Lin" by Pamela Dean – "Tam Lin" relocated to a college in early 1970s Minnesota
*"Dorian, an Imitation" by Will Self – Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"