Hogarth Shakespeare: The Gap of Time : William Shakespeare' The Winter's Tale Retold: A Novel (Paperback)

from browner56

I was very excited when Hogarth Shakespeare announced its plan to have some of the very best authors working today-people like Anne Tyler, Margaret Atwood, Howard Jacobson, Tracy Chevalier, and Jeanette Winterson-produce updated cover versions of their favorite plays by the Immortal Bard. What an...

from lesleynicol

I'm not sure whether these updates of Shakespeare"s stories work for me. I prefer the original prose. I thought the author (one of my favourites) did a good job. However the original story has such terrific characters, especially the ruthless king Leontes ,which when translated to todays world be...

from SheilaDeeth

Jeanette Winterson's retelling of Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale has the focus of a play with rapidly separated scenes, and the depth of a novel with smoothly drawn characters pondering cruel deceptions. The result is a tale that's simultaneously distant and absorbing, set in places almost recogni...

from Larxol

The Gap of Time is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series of re-tellings of the plays by modern authors. Author Jeanette Winterson, given The Winter's Tale as her assignment, handles one of the more convoluted plots of all the plays with aplomb, rendering the story as a very readable modern novel...

from laytonwoman3rd

The first of the Hogarth Shakespeare "covers", this may be the one I enjoyed the least. It all felt too pat, too lined-up with the original (The Winter's Tale), and much much too predictable. I don't recall having that impression with any of the other entries in this series. I'm not a fan of Wint...