The Gap of Time: William Shakespeare' The Winter's Tale Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare) Personal Growth Shae Carys

Shae Carys

originally published in 1982

the men profiled here maneuver through family and friendship circles where masculinity dominates

as he recovers from the heart attack threatening daily to kill him

The Gap of Time: William Shakespeare' The Winter's Tale Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare) Personal Growth Shae CarysThe Winters Tale is one of Shakespeares 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 Wintersons cover version of The Winters Tale, we move from