Review: The Gap of Time Jeanette Winterson Hogarth Shakespeare 2015 Another of the novelized retelling of a Shakespear's work from Hogarth. This one comes from The Winter’s Tale in which Shakespeare depicted jealousy with its attendant emotions and consequences. It’s been called a tragicomedy i.e. bad stuff happens, but it still ends happy. The audiences then as now did not like unhappy, the bad guy wins endings. Justice and repentance must prevail. And it does. That’s a spoiler, but one that should be no surprise. Winterson worked her novelized version from the interior of the jealous husband’s mind. She does that portrayal well. The guy is disgusting and deserves to come to a bad end. He doesn’t though, just as Shakespeare wrote his play. Now comes the part Shakespeare did not do. The language the author chose to use throughout a large portion of this work is as crass as it can get....
