A compelling and novel slant on Shakespeare
Commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death
Fiction; The Gap of Time; By Jeanette Winterson; Hogarth Press, €22.60
The Gap of Time is the first in a series of “cover versions” of Shakespeare plays commissioned by new Vintage imprint Hogarth Press to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death.
Publishers have been happily capitalising on the appeal of the updated classic in recent years — Alexander McCall Smith added the latest title to The Austen Project with his version ...