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

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