Tyler’s thoroughly modern take on Shakespeare is a triumph

Fiction; Vinegar Girl; By Anne Tyler; Hogarth, €17.50

The Taming of the Shrew is the third Shakespeare play to get reworked for modern audiences as part of publishing house Hogarth’s Shakespeare Project. Jeanette Winterson launched the series in 2015 with The Gap in Time, her retelling of The Winter’s Tale set in a storm-ravaged America.

Next up was Booker-winner Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name earlier this year, where pounds of flesh were ...