Another in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, Jeanette Winterson "covers" (her words) Winter's Tale. Winterson brings the Tale of a jealous king who sends away his baby daughter believing she is the product of an affair between his wife and best friend effectively into the present and plays w time and meta in interesting ways. This is a perfectly good book that left me cold for some reason. Maybe because I'm not as familiar w the original play and its themes. Of the 3 authors I've read in this series, all 3 have taken different approaches to the project. Anne Tyler adapted Shrew as AU fanfic, M Atwood designed a prison setting mimetic of her play-within-a-play framing device, and Winterson foregrounded her relationship as the author to the material and its characters within the novel itself in the most post-modern of the approaches thus far. That Shakespeare is a character, that Shakespeare's char from Tale are characters, that Shakespeare's other characters are char, and that Winterson herself is a character in her novel is fascinating but for me, the novel itself, was not. #bookworm #january2017reads #hogarthshakespeareproject #goodreadschallenge2017
