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Iphigeneia in Tauris: classic early retcon, whereby it transpires that Agamemnon did not in fact kill his daughter at all (and hence the whole of the Oresteia was spectacularly pointless), she was replaced by a magic deer at the last moment. I know, I know, it sounds like the mad plotless rantings of a crazed fanboy, but actually it was Euripides. Go figure. There's also a bunch of sequels to Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, eg Oedipus at Colonnus*, so it'd be interesting to know where Henry B diverges from canon there.
There's also Ovid's version of the Aeneid, in the Metamorphoses. And a minor character from the Odyssey shows up in the Aeneid to tell the story from a minion POV, rather than from Odysseus's. Dorothy Parker wrote a brilliant short poem from Penelope's POV (the Odyssey again).
Wide Sargasso Sea, of course, is the story of Mr Rochester's mad wife from Jane Eyre, and I'm sure there's loads of feminist retellings of various Greek/Roman stories from a woman's POV, but I can't think of any offhand.
Less classic: there's Susan Hill's sequel to Rebecca, Mrs deWinter, and whoever-it-was's sequel to Gone with the Wind, Scarlett (both rubbish).
League of Gentlemen, generally. But there would be too many comix examples.
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