The word "retell" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about telling a story again, or telling someone else a story that has already been told. For example: "She loved hearing stories, so I retell my favorite one every time we get together."
Prince of Jutland (1994), shot in English in Denmark, was a risible effort to retell the story of Amled, drawing on the 12th-century work that inspired Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The result has been a game of Chinese whispers, preserved in the digital amber of the internet; each attempt to retell the story drifting further from the original truth, and leaving the public more confused than ever.
The identities of his narrators are fragile, blending with those of the other people whose experiences his books retell.
Educational comics, hagiographies and patriotic films retell parts of his life story.
Even allowing that speakers were told to retell the story in their own words (and not to "translate" strictly), the differences are stark.For those who revel in linguistic diversity, this is all good fun.
He liked it best in part because, after several earlier attempts to retell the myth, he had at last succeeded by depicting the ancient setting of the story in realistic detail, by giving the characters psychological depth and consistency, and by telling the story from the perspective of one of Psyche's sisters, Orual, who is the novel's unreliable narrator.
Seeking to explore varied dimensions of arousal rather than to retell a narrative, Chan pushed viewers to experience their own individual responses.
But if the composers catered to poetry, writing Lieder (German songs) and attempting to retell stories in instrumental works, the poets looked with awe and envy upon the composers' use of a language so utterly dissociated from material existence.
For example, so great was the influence of the story of Rama in the classical Hindu Ramayana that the Buddhists and Jains felt obliged to retell the story in their own terms.
But Lewis was not trying just to retell Bible stories in a different setting.
Black Nativity (1961; film 2013) was a gospel play that used Hughes's poetry, along with gospel standards and scriptural passages, to retell the story of the birth of Jesus.
