Podcasts about Hogarth Shakespeare

In Episode 163, Sara Hildreth, from @FictionMatters and co-host of the podcast Novel Pairings, returns for her third appearance on our show as our expert for Classics & Retellings 101. Sara guides us through the sometimes intimidating world of timeless reads in an accessible way. She busted some myths about classics and changed my mind about some elements of the classics. And, she has a great approach to find the perfect retelling of your favorite classics for your next read.  This post contains affiliate links through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). CLICK HERE for the full episode Show Notes on the blog. Highlights Sara explores the definitions of a classic and a modern classic book. We talk about separating the American literature canon from the idea of a classic. Sara talks about being free to define classics on personal terms. The idea of a book being labeled a “future classic.” Now-famous books that went unnoticed initially when they were released. Sara's personal reading motivations. Common issues people have when trying to tackle classic books. Notable quirks of many classics that were first published as serials. Tips and advice for approaching older books. Addressing the pressure surrounding reading or revisiting classics. Examples of nonfiction classics. Legal considerations for all those retellings. The rise of retellings as a trend with today's audience. The difference between retellings and fan fiction. Sara's recommendations for accessible classic literature. A different approach to finding the right retelling for your reading. Please note: Sara mistakenly mentions during the discussion that The Great Gatsbydid not come into popularity until its distribution to soldiers during World War I, when this actually occurred during World War II. Sara's Book Recommendations [49:02] Two OLD Books She Loves — Classics The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton | Amazon | Bookshop.org [49:43] Passing by Nella Larson | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [53:12] Other Books Mentioned The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton [50:58] The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton [50:59] Roman Fever and Other Stories by Edith Wharton [51:03] The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett [55:44] Two NEW Books She Loves — Retellings Anna K by Jenny Lee | Amazon | Bookshop.org [57:35] The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vho | Amazon | Bookshop.org [1:00:28] Other Books Mentioned Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy [59:01] Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar [59:53] Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan [59:58] One Book She DIDN'T Love — Classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | Amazon | Bookshop.org[1:03:25] One NEW RELEASE She's Excited About — Retelling and Classic Pairing The Garden by Claire Beams (April 9, 2024) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [1:05:12] Other Books Mentioned The Illness Lesson by Claire Beams [1:05:37] Little Women by Louisa May Alcott [1:05:41] The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett [1:06:21] Last 5-Star Book Sara Read James by Percival Everett (March 19, 2024) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [1:07:47] Books Mentioned During the Classics Discussion The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe [3:44] Beloved by Toni Morrison [10:46] Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver [12:05] David Copperfield by Charles Dickens [12:19] James by Percival Everett (March 19, 2024) [13:29] Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain [13:34] Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys [13:51] Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë [14:02] The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald [14:45] Frankenstein by Mary Shelley [15:09] Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn [15:20] Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë [24:27] A Model of Christian Charity: A City on a Hill by John Winthrop [26:35] A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft [26:47] Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass [26:54] The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank [26:59] A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf [27:02] In Cold Blood by Truman Capote [27:14] The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith [29:13] The Time Machine by H. G. Wells [29:20] The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson [29:23] Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier [29:30] The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood [29:36] The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor [29:45] The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell [30:17] The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman [30:20] The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson [30:23] The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick [30:26] Going to Meet the Man: Stories (with Sonny's Blues) by James Baldwin [30:37] Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance (with The Gilded Six-Bits) by Zora Neale Hurston [30:42] Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston [30:54] Kindred by Octavia E. Butler [31:00] Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler [31:08] Books Mentioned During the Retellings Discussion Julia by Sandra Newman [33:38] 1984 by George Orwell [33:40] Hamlet by William Shakespeare [34:10] Emma by Jane Austen [34:24] The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare [34:28] The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson [34:45] Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith [34:51] Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson [35:04] And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie [35:08] The Winters by Lisa Gabriele [35:35] The Odyssey by Homer [36:38] The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller [37:00] Circe by Madeline Miller [37:01] Hogarth Shakespeare series by various authors [37:53] Canongate Myth Series by various authors [37:57] The Austen Project series by various authors [38:00] Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld [38:03] Naamah by Sarah Blake [38:56] Anna K by Jenny Li [40:10] Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy [40:20] Tom Lake by Ann Patchett [40:41] Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor [42:36] Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes [44:14] Marmee by Sarah Miller [44:17] Little Women by Louisa May Alcott [44:22] Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell [44:38] Ruth's Journey: A Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind by Donald McCaig [44:40] Pride by Ibi Zoboi [45:19] Other Links The Atlantic | Italo Calvino's 14 Definitions of What Makes a Classic by Maria Popova (July 7, 2012) Novel Pairings | The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (February 27, 2024) About Sara Hildreth Website | Instagram | Facebook  Sara Hildreth is the creator behind FictionMatters, a literary Instagram account, newsletter, and book club focused on putting thought-provoking books into the hands of adventurous readers. She also co-hosts Novel Pairings, a podcast dedicated to making the classics readable, relevant, and fun.

Jamye, Ellen, and Lori are joined by Sharon Dennis, a local actor, director, and all-around “theatrician.” They discuss favorite film adaptations, the necessity of watching Shakespeare performances, the origin of knock knock jokes, the Hogarth Shakespeare series, and how to break the curse of Macbeth!Want to hear more (or less) about this in the future? Let us know at podcast@evpl.org.For a subtitled version of this podcast, please visit EVPL's YouTube: bit.ly/EVPLvideos

We’re back with another TBR toppling episode! Today,  Chelsey and Sara pair brand new and upcoming spring book releases with backlist titles that share similar themes, plotlines, or settings. We haven’t read all of these new releases, so our pairings are based on speculation and best guesses. If you pick up any of the books we mention today, we’d love to hear about it!  Connect with us  on Instagram or Twitter. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get updates and behind-the-scenes info. Check out our show notes to see every title in this episode on our blog.  For more literary content, join our Classics Club: patreon.com/novelpairings.com Get two audiobooks for the price of one from Libro.fm. Use our Libro.fm affiliate code NOVELPAIRINGS and support independent bookstores. Books mentioned: These links are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, Novel Pairings will earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support! Out in March 3/2/2021 Infinite Country by Patricia Engel (Amazon) Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopero (Amazon)   What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster (Amazon) Nice White Parents podcast The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet (Amazon) There is Confusion by Jessie Redmon Fauset (Amazon)   3/9/2021 Brood by Jackie Polzin (Amazon) My Antonia by Willa Cather (Amazon) Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unswerth (Amazon)   The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chonda Prescod-Weinstein (Amazon) Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (Amazon) Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Amazon)   The Salt Fields by Stacy D. Flood (Amazon) The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Amazon) Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward (Amazon)   3/16/2021 That Way Madness Lies by Dahlia Adler (Amazon) His Hideous Heart by Dahlia Adler (Amazon) Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust (Amazon) The Radical Element by Jessica Spotswood (Amazon) All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell (Amazon) Because You Love to Hate Me by Amerie (Amazon)   Lolita in the Afterlife by Jenny Minton Quigley (Amazon) Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov (Amazon) Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Amazon) Excavation by Wendy C. Oriz (Amazon) My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (Amazon) Living with Shakespeare by Susannah Carson (Amazon) 3/23/2021 There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura (Amazon) Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Amazon)   3/30/2021 Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge (Amazon) Everything Inside by Edwinge Danticat (Amazon)   Wild Women and the Blues by Denny S. Bryce (Amazon) Let Us Dream by Alyssa Cole (Amazon)   Libro.fm Reads The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins Culture Warlords by Talia Lavin Here for It by R. Eric Thomas   Out in April 4/6/2021 Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi (Amazon) Snowpiercer by Jaques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette (Amazon) Stream Snowpiercer or Parasite   Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian (Amazon) Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (Amazon)   4/8/2021 Hamlet by Gillian Flynn Anything in the Hogarth Shakespeare project   4/13/2021 Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin (Amazon) Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin (Amazon) Tweet Cute by Emma Lord (Amazon) Attachments by Rainbow Rowell (Amazon)   4/27/2021 Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Salfe (Amazon) Ellen @reading_theend Life After Life by Kate Atkinison (Amazon) Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore (Amazon) The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab (Amazon)   Out in May 5/4/2021 The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (Amazon) Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Amazon) Maintenance Phase podcast   Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (Amazon) Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead  (Amazon) Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead  (Amazon) Circling the Sun by Paula McLain (Amazon) Amelia Earhart by Doris Rich (Amazon)   Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (Amazon) Beloved by Toni Morrison (Amazon) Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark (Amazon)   5/25/2021 While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams (Amazon) The Coyotes of Carthage by Steven Wright (Amazon)   The Guncle by Steven Rawley (Amazon) Be Frank With Me by Julia Claybourn Johnson (Amazon) Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (Amazon)   Out in June  6/1/2021 The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris (Amazon) Passing by Nella Larsen (Amazon) The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell (Amazon) Luster by Raven Leilani (Amazon)

"I'm a maid mad to marry And will take double-quick Any Tom, Dick or Harry, Any Tom, Harry or Dick!" - Lois Lane / Bianca, in Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate We're back with episode 10! Today I explore the critical and theatrical history of The Taming of the Shrew, from folk tales to musicals, from the Victorians to vaudeville, from an overacting Christopher Sly to Hollywood's take on the rebel. Come join me!   You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, or by email at podcastshakespeare@gmail.com. You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, or download direct from Libsyn. The Patreon campaign is up and running, with bonus Sonnet episodes! We also have a brand spanking new Spotify playlist, which will be updated as we work through the plays. Key links below. You can also visit the bibliography page here, which is a work in progress. Links mentioned: BBC's Upstart Crow Aarne-Thompson classification system for folklore narratives. The story of "Ledasha" 1550s ballad: “A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel’s Skin for Her Good Behaviour” George Gascoigne, Supposes Ovid, Metamorphoses 1601 anecdote about William "the Conqueror" Shakespeare John Fletcher, The Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed (1611) The Enid Blyton Society John Lacy, Sauny the Scot; or, The Taming of the Shrew: A Comedy David Garrick, Catharine and Petruchio 1976 American Conservatory Theatre production on Youtube, starring Marc Singer and Fredi Olster Kiss Me Petruchio (1978) on Youtube The Taming of the Shrew (2012), Globe Theatre production on DVD, starring Samantha Spiro (Kate) and Simon Paisley Day (Petruchio) The Taming of the Shrew (1929), d: Sam Taylor, starring Mary Pickford (Katharina) and Douglas Fairbanks (Petruchio) on Dailymotion The Taming of the Shrew (1967), d: Franco Zeffirelli, starring Elizabeth Taylor (Kate) and Richard Burton (Petruchio) The Taming of the Shrew (1980), BBC, d: Jonathan Miller, starring Sarah Badel (Kate) and John Cleese (Petruchio) Vermeer’s music lesson - copied in Miller's production Pieter Janssens Elinga - Interior with Painter, Woman Reading and Maid Sweeping [1668] The Taming of the Shrew (1994) from Shakespeare: The Animated Tales on Dailymotion 10 Things I Hate About You (1999; d: Gil Junger), starring Julia Stiles (Kat) and Heath Ledger (Patrick) Atomic Shakespeare from Moonlighting, with Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis - cropped version on Youtube ShakespeaRe-Told: The Taming of the Shrew (2005; d: David Richards) Shakespearean Whodunnits (1997): Murder Mysteries based on the Bard, including The Taming of Lord Thomas Vinegar Girl (2016) by Anne Tyler, adapted from The Taming of the Shrew as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series. Wolf-Ferrari, Sly (opera) - review of the 2002 Met Opera production starring Placido Domingo, at the New York Times Kiss Me Kate (1948) by Cole Porter - 1999 production on Youtube Art inspired by The Taming of the Shrew Music clips: Nino Rota, soundtrack to Zeffirelli's "The Taming of the Shrew", 1967 (Columbia Picutres, US / Italy) orchestra conducted by Carlo Savina -Nocturne -In the House of Petruchio Cole Porter, Kiss Me Kate, 2000 Broadway cast recording: Stanley Wayne Mathis (Paul) and company "Come, Kiss Me Kate" from Ross W. Duffin's Shakespeare's Songbook Luciano Michelini, ‘Frolic’, from Curb Your Enthusiasm, 2000 – present Hans Werner Henze, Royal Winter Music: First Sonata on Shakespearean Characters (1975-76), movement based on Richard of Gloucester Porter, Kiss Me Kate, 1999 London cast, Nancy Kathryn Anderson (Lois Lane / Bianca) and company Letters to Cleo, I Want You to Want Me, from 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) Porter, Kiss Me Kate, 2014 BBC Proms, Michael Jibson & James Doherty (Gangsters) Reference: Garner, Shirley Nelson. "The Taming of the Shrew: Inside or Outside the Joke?." "Bad" Shakespeare: Revaluations of the Shakespeare Canon. Ed. Maurice Charney. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1988. p105-19.

On today's episode, Adam & Jill are joined by Emma and Kristin to dish out oodles of recommendations for the Professional Book Nerds 2019 Reading Challenge! Also they make lots of good, good jokes. Books mentioned in this episode (broken out by category)   Book written by two or more authors   Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan Josh and Hazel's guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Some Sing, Some Cry by Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza My Plain Jane Cynthia Hand & Brodi Ashton All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein   Book that has appeared on the ALA's frequently challenged book list Scary Stories to tell in the dark Perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Harry Potter The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Of Mice and men by John Steinbeck A lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines Grendel by John Gardner     Audiobook of a memoir or autobiography read by the author Heartland by Sarah Smarsh Still Foolin' em by Billy Crystal Born Standing Up by Steve Martin As You Wish by Cary Elwes My Life as a Goddess by Guy Branum We're going to need more win Gabrielle Union In pieces by Sally Field Hunger makes me a modern girl by Carrie Brownstein Party of One by Dave Holmes Yes, Please by Amy Poehler This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Phillips     Retelling of a classic book, fairy tale, or play The Hogarth Shakespeare series of books- The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson (The Winter's Tale) Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson (The Merchant of Venice) Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (The Tempest)   The Forest Queen by Betsy Cornwell - Genderbent Robin Hood The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Blanca and Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore - Swan Lake The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran & Larissa Zageris A Blade so Black by LL McKinney The Winters by Lisa Gabrielle The Dead Queens Club by Hannah Capin Boy, Snow, Bird Helen Oyeyemi Jane Steele by Lindsay Faye

In this episode of BOOKS WITH JEN, Jen talks to Tracy Chevalier, author of 'The Girl with the Pearl Earring,' about her new novel 'At the Edge of the Orchard,' and the launch of the Hogarth Shakespeare series. Jen also catches up with editor Michael Mackmin, who runs the poetry journal 'The Rialto.'

Reader's Room pulls the most fascinating writing from speculative fiction, science, and technology. In this edition we talk about coming to terms with things, including glitter, Shakespeare, and loss. Show links: Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed Which is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare collection. UK exam board fined$250,000 for confusing characters from Romeo and Juliet. Clark County inmates learning to engineer, produce, and play music. (Autoplay video warning. Sorry.) 10 minute documentary about a very unlikley soul album.YouTube Link. Here's one of their songs. Paper: The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities PDF link Suggestions, comments, or subscribe to the newsletter at ReadSteven.com  

This week, actress Vella Lovell (Crazy Ex- Girlfriend, The Big Sick) is back on The Stacks. This week we're talking about New Boy by Tracy Chevalier. New Boy is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series, in which modern day authors retell Shakespeare's classic works. New Boy is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello, set in a 1970's elementary school in Washington D.C. We talk about this book in comparison to its source material, where Chevalier's book wins and where it misses. Just like Othello itself, this episode covers a lot of subjects, from racism and sexism, to what makes a good adaptation of Shakespeare? While we do discuss New Boy in detail, we don't really spoil the book if you're familiar with Othello. If you don't know Othello then there may be spoilers for you. Listen at your own risk. Here is what we discussed this week O (Lionsgate) Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi Hamlet by William Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare MacBeth by William Shakespeare A Midsummer's Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson Nutshell by Ian McEwand West Side Story (United Artists) Leonard Bernstein Stephen Sondheim Othello: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition (Audible) Romeo + Juliet (20th Century Fox) A Chorus Line (Columbia Pictures) Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Ten Things I Hate About You (Buena Vista Pictures) Richard III by William Shakespeare A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare Black Arrow FC How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer Connect with The Stacks: Instagram| Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads |Traci's Instagram|iTunes| Website|Patreon Connect with Vella: Instagram | Twitter Thank you to this week's sponsor Audible. To get your FREE audiobook download and FREE 30 day trial go to audibletrial.com/thestacks. To contribute to The Stacks, join The Stacks Pack, and get exclusive perks, check out our Patreon page. We are beyond grateful for anything you're able to give to support the production of this show. If you prefer to do a one time contribution go to paypal.me/thestackspod. The Stacks participates in affiliate programs in which we receive a small commission when products are purchased through some links on this website. This does not effect my opinions on books and products. For more information click here.   

The author of the Patrick Melrose novels talks about adapting the story of one of Shakespeare’s most dysfunctional families for the Hogarth Shakespeare series. In Edward St. Aubyn’s version of “King Lear,” called “Dunbar,” Lear becomes a media mogul whose evil daughters have locked him away in a psychiatric hospital. Edward St. Aubyn is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. Published November 1, 2017. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This episode, “Th’ Untented Woundings of a Father’s Curse,” was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington. Esther French is the web producer. We had help from Andrew Feliciano and Evan Marquardt at Voice Trax West in Studio City, California and Paul Reuest at Argot Studios in New York.

Tracy Chevalier, author of "Girl With a Pearl Earring," takes on the tragedy of "Othello" in her latest novel, part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series. But in a twist, she moves the action to a public elementary school playground in Washington, DC, in the early 1970s. The book, titled "New Boy," uses its distinctive setting to explore issues of discrimination, betrayal, alienation, and jealousy. In this episode, Tracy talks about the book, her inspirations, and the challenges of working with, and under the shadow of, Shakespeare. Tracy Chevalier was interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. Published May 31, 2017. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This podcast episode, "The Property of Youth and Maidhood," was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington. Esther French is the web producer. We had help from Melissa Marquis as NPR in Washington and Angie Hamilton-Lowe at NPR-West in Culver City, California.

This May we celebrate outsiders: the people on the fringes; those who go against the grain. Irvine Welsh joins us to discuss his friendship with Howard Marks, once Britain’s most wanted man, and author of drug-smuggling travelogue Mr Nice. Tracy Chevalier breaks down her entry in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, New Boy, a remix of Othello set in the school playground. And taking us off the airwaves, J. D. Daniels discusses his idiosyncratic essay collection, The Correspondence, his thoughts on ‘the terror of being alive’, and the crucial difference between British and American lock-ins. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Following a screening of Julie Taymor's acclaimed The Tempest, Canadian literary icon Margaret Atwood joins award-winning stage director and actress Martha Henry for a discussion of William Shakespeare's original play, Taymor's film adaptation, and Atwood's highly anticipated novel Hag-Seed, a re-telling of The Tempest as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series.

To celebrate the launch of the Hogarth Shakespeare project, in which today's best-loved authors create new novels based on the plays of Shakespeare, we have a podcast special with Jeanette Winterson and Howard Jacobson in conversation with Alex Clark. What drew them to the project, what made them choose the play they did, and what were the challenges of adapting the Bard? Jeanette Winterson's The Gap of Time is published on October 1st Howard Jacobson's Shylock Is My Name will be published in February next year. http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/HogarthShakespeare/Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooksSign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletterJeanette Winterson - The Gap in TimeA baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief.Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't know a lot about who she is or where she's come from - but she's about to find out.Jeanette Winterson’s cover version of The Winter’s Tale vibrates with echoes of Shakespeare's original and tells a story of hearts broken and hearts healed, a story of revenge and forgiveness, a story that shows that whatever is lost shall be found.Howard Jacobson - Shylock Is My NameA re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life.‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire’s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It’s the beginning of a remarkable friendship ... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.