Yet, in the contemporary psychoanalytical style, Winterson also reveals backstories and inner traumas. Shakespearean archetypes are invoked and recast: the arrogant banker, who falls from grace the beautiful, martyred wife the humble girl who fails to understand her worth. Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks, review: 'a masterpiece' A soapbox salesman with a silver tongue," and proprieter of Autos Like Us. MiMi, a famous singer, is silenced by the death of her son and the disappearance of her daughter.Tony Gonzales does not "exit, pursued by a bear," but is murdered instead. Winterson's "cover version" transplants the story to contemporary London where Leo, a banker who was sacked after the 2008 financial crisis, accuses his pregnant wife, MiMi, of having an affair with his best friend Xeno.Ĭarnage ensues: Leo's son Milo dies, and his daughter Perdita is abandoned somewhere in the United States and reared by Shep, defined rather starkly by the jacket blurb as "a black man".
Jeanette Winterson and Howard Jacobson on retelling Shakespeare's plays
It is a dreamlike fable, riddled with folkloric archetypes - the humble child who turns out to be a princess, the king who squanders his kingdom. That play was Shakespeare's own retelling of Pandosto by Robert Greene, with further possible borrowings from Francis Sabie and Plutarch, among others. This, the first in the new Hogarth series of Shakespeare plays "retold" by modern novelists, is a "retelling" of The Winter's Tale.
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