![]() ![]() Xeno (Polixenes), Leo’s childhood friend, lives in New Bohemia and is a computer games genius. MiMi (Hermione), married to Leo, is a famous American/French singer who is heavily pregnant with their second child. Leontes becomes Leo, a brutal, bullish man who owns a successful hedge fund company called Sicilia. As an adopted child, she empathizes with the abandoned Perdita, and says the play has haunted her for many years.Īt first the novel feels clumsy and awkward as Winterson introduces the main characters in their new settings and guises. The author helpfully provides a synopsis of the play and main characters before launching in to her own version of the story which she says has special significance for her. It is set in London, Paris and New Bohemia in the present day or perhaps the near future. ![]() A number of famous authors, including Tracy Chevalier, Margaret Atwood, Edward St Aubyn, Gillian Flynn, Howard Jacobson and Jo Nesbo, will each retell a Shakespearean play in the form of a novel, in celebration of Shakespeare’s reputation as a re-teller of well-known tales.įirst into the breach is Jeanette Winterson who takes on The Winter’s Tale, renaming it The Gap of Time, a quote from the end of the play. To mark the 400 th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in 2016, Hogarth is publishing ‘cover versions’ of some of the bard’s greatest works under the title, The Hogarth Shakespeare. William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale Retold ![]()
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