The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
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The Winters Tale is one of Shakespeares late plays. It tells the story of Leontes King of Sicily whose insane jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter Perdita from the kingdom and then the death of his beautiful wife Hermione. Perdita is brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast but through a series of miraculous events father and daughter and eventually mother too are reunited. In Jeanette Wintersons retelling we move from London a city reeling after the 2008 financial crash to a storm-ravaged city in the US called New Bohemia. Her story is one of childhood friendship money status video games and the elliptical nature of time. It tells in a hyper-modern way full of energy and beauty of the consuming power of jealousy on the one hand and love redemption and a lost child on the other. Finalist Lambda Literary Award
