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GAP of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold, The (Book); HOGARTH Press (Company); ADAPTATIONS of Shakespeare's works; DRAMATIC works of William Shakespeare; WINTERSON, Jeanette, 1959-; MONOGRAPHIC series; ATWOOD, Margaret, 1939-; JACOBSON, Howard

The article looks at a fiction series being commissioned by Great Britain-based publisher Hogarth Press consisting of novels retelling the stories from English writer William Shakespeare's plays and reviews the first book in the series, "The Gap of Time" by Jeanette Winterson, which retells the Shakespeare play "The Winter's Tale." It previews other books in the series including adaptations of the plays "The Tempest" and "The Merchant of Venice" by Margaret Atwood and Howard Jacobson, respectively.