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HTML:The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's "late plays." It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of extraordinary events, father and daughter, and eventually mother too, are reunited.
In The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale, we move from London, a city reeling after the 2008 financial crisis, to a storm-ravaged American city called New Bohemia. Her story is one of childhood friendship, money, status, technology and the elliptical nature of time. Written with energy and wit, this is a story of the consuming power of jealousy on the one hand, and redemption and the enduring love of a lost child on the other.
Even though I’m afraid I haven’t read Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale”, the useful summary of the play’s plot included at the beginning of the book was enough to see the parallelisms between this novel and the play. I really loved the beginning of the book, especially the first chapter, but as the story went on, I started to lose interest, as I found it hard to believe some characters’ reactions and plot’s twists, (Spoiler) especially the happy ending. I’m sure they worked in Shakespeare’s play, but I don’t think they work so well in this contemporary retelling. Despite these caveats, the book was an enjoyable short novel and I look forward to reading more of Hogarth Press’ series of Shakespeare’s retellings. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Past fifty, we learn with surprise and a sense of suicidal absolution that what we intended and failed could never have happened—and must be done better. —"For Sheridan," Robert Lowell
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The Place. The play opens in Sicilia—one of Shakespeare's many fantasy islands.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
It takes so little time to change a lifetime and it takes a lifetime to understand the change.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Fiction.
Literature.
Humor (Fiction.)
HTML:The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's "late plays." It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of extraordinary events, father and daughter, and eventually mother too, are reunited.
In The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale, we move from London, a city reeling after the 2008 financial crisis, to a storm-ravaged American city called New Bohemia. Her story is one of childhood friendship, money, status, technology and the elliptical nature of time. Written with energy and wit, this is a story of the consuming power of jealousy on the one hand, and redemption and the enduring love of a lost child on the other.
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I really loved the beginning of the book, especially the first chapter, but as the story went on, I started to lose interest, as I found it hard to believe some characters’ reactions and plot’s twists, (Spoiler) especially the happy ending. I’m sure they worked in Shakespeare’s play, but I don’t think they work so well in this contemporary retelling.
Despite these caveats, the book was an enjoyable short novel and I look forward to reading more of Hogarth Press’ series of Shakespeare’s retellings. (