by Jeanette Winterson
LEONTES Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? Is meeting noses? Kissing with inside lip? Stopping the career Of laughter with a sigh?—a note infallible Of breaking honesty. Horsing foot on foot? Skulking in corners? Wishing clocks more swift, Hours minutes, noon midnight? And all ...
The Gap of Time is Jeannette Winterson’s retelling (“cover version” in her words) of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. She says stories have only three possible endings: tragedy, comedy, or forgiveness (“Happily Ever After is just a coda to one of these endings,” according to Winterson). In this ve...
I should note that Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale has never been a favorite. I've always wanted Leo to die. Yeah, I know it's about forgiveness, but still.So, this is okay. There are parts of that are wonderful. Like where Leo is watching MiMi and co via webcam. His reaction is nothing but an attac...
This was a charming reworking of Shakespeare's "A Winter's Tale." Some points surprised me, at first striking me as a bit more twisted than Shakespeare...but oh yeah, we're talking about Shakespeare, who didn't give a damn about political correctness and loved pulling out all the dark, twisted depth...
This was a fun and quick read but a little cheesy at points. Full review forthcoming.
4.5 stars #GapofTime @CrownPublishing @WintersonworldWhen I saw that this was a take off from one of Shakespeare's plays, I was so hoping it wasn't written like one of his plays. Then when I started reading it, I was like, oh no, it is. But, thankfully, that was just the first few pages of the bo...
[I received an advanced copy of this book through Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review.]I'm not too familiar with Winterson's writing—except for a puny page from Sexing the Cherry that I had to translate at uni a some 10 years ago—so I can't comment on how this adaptation exercise affected he...
I went to sleep last night thinking about Lear, Othello, and Leontes. Not having read Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale before, my brain automatically tried to make sense of Jeanette Winterson’s retelling of that play through Shakespeare’s other plays...Shakespeare’s later plays are often called probl...
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