{"id":39914,"date":"2015-12-10T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T13:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=39914"},"modified":"2017-10-18T19:20:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T23:20:36","slug":"gap-time-hogarth-shakespeare-jeanette-winterson-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/gap-time-hogarth-shakespeare-jeanette-winterson-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gap of Time [Hogarth Shakespeare] by Jeanette Winterson [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gap<\/a>Jeanette Winterson<\/a> inaugurates \u201cThe Hogarth Shakespeare<\/a>\u201d series\u00a0\u2013 \u201ca major international project [that] will see Shakespeare\u2019s plays reimagined by some of today\u2019s bestselling and most celebrated writers\u201d\u00a0\u2013 with a contemporary reinvention of The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/em>.\u00a0In Winterson\u2019s version, the setting moves between post-2008 market-crashed London and a storm-ravaged American city called New Bohemia.<\/p>\n

The character metamorphoses include King Leontes as a megalomaniacal financier, Queen Hermione as a popular singer, and best friend King Polixenes as a designer of computer games. Lost Perdita retains her name, but here she\u2019s a white British newborn adoringly raised and unconditionally loved by an African American father and son.<\/p>\n

In an example of narrative enhancement, Winterson provides Leo and Xeno with an intense backstory of youthful obsession that better justifies Leo\u2019s blinding jealousy. As Shakespeare\u2019s play was meant to be performed, perhaps Winterson\u2019s novel should only be read\u00a0\u2013 too much goes wrong as narrated by Penelope Rawlins, Mark Bazeley, and Ben Onwukwe. Rawlins gives Perdita an inexplicable British accent, although she\u2019s spent her entire life save for a few days in the United States. Numerous characters, especially Leo, are voiced by different narrators in various sections without continuity; the effect is jarringly, repeatedly disruptive.<\/p>\n

Verdict<\/strong>: Separately, the narrators are surely worthy bards (richly, gravelly voiced Onwukwe is magnificent as Shep); alas, their director\u2019s inability to create a coherent ensemble regrettably mars Winterson\u2019s otherwise remarkable Tale<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Xpress Reviews: Audiobooks,” Library Journal<\/em>, December 3, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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