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Hi guys,
I'm searching out for author's that write stories using characters that were created by a different author.
For example: Some of the characters mentioned by Dante in the Divine Commedy (Ciaco, Filippo d'Argento) are reused by Boccaccio in the Decameron. They are given their own short novels and in this way Boccaccio can dialog with Dante.
Let's put it this way: One character, Two authors. :)
Can you guys think of any other example?
Thanks a lot!
Aureo
There are quite a few.
Flashman was invented by Tom Hughes in Tom Brown's School Days but was later reused by George MacDonald Fraser in his Flashman series of books.
Rochester and Bertha from Jane Eyre were used by Jean Rhys in The Wide Sargasso Sea.
I believe P.D. James has recently written a book called Death Comes to Pemberley, which is a sequel to Pride and Prejudice.
I noticed in a book shop than someone had written a book titled Haversham (iirc), about Lady Haversham from Great Expectations.
For Flashman I have read at least one short story in which he was used.
Then there's Sherlock Holmes. I don't know how many people have written Sherlock since Arthur Conan Doyle, but I have read stories by at least three others,including a Flashman story that featured Holmes and Watson.
Then there was what L. Ron Hubbard did to Harold Shea, the character of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. Hubbard killed Shea, and Pratt & de Camp had to rescue him from the mouth of a dinosaur that had eaten him.
And there have been many others.
Elron killed off Harold Shea? That's sacrilege.
We'll never know who first created the character, but the roman soldier who speared Christ on the cross became the star of Barry Sadler's Casca series.
For a twist on the Sherlock Holmes thing, Mark Frost's immensely entertaining List of Seven has Arthur Conan Doyle as a man of action fighting occult forces, in the process meeting the man who'd become his inspiration for Holmes.
Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard has a whle slew of books added on ot his adventures. Black Coat Press releasae an annual anthology series under the umbrella title of Tales of the Shadowmen using all sorts of literary characters in various combinations.
Didn't Alan Moore and his wife write an erotic graphic novel called The Lost Girls. iirc it had grown up versions Dorothy the Wizard of Oz, Wendy from Peter Pan and Alice from Alice in Wonderland.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (in fact the whole dramatis personae from Hamlet, I think. Shakespeare then Stoppard.
Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde > Shakespeare - Troilus and Cressida
Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, Virgil, Chaucer... almost all authors prior to the birth of the novel.