Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Gap of Time | 2015 | Jeanette Winterson | Buy |
| 2 | Shylock is My Name | 2016 | Jeanette Winterson | Buy |
| 3 | Vinegar Girl | 2016 | Jeanette Winterson | Buy |
| 4 | Hag-Seed | 2016 | Jeanette Winterson | Buy |
| 5 | New Boy | 2017 | Jeanette Winterson | Buy |
| 6 | Dunbar | 2017 | Jeanette Winterson | Buy |
| 7 | Macbeth | 2018 | Jeanette Winterson | Buy |
The Hogarth Shakespeare series is a publishing project launched in 2015 by Hogarth Press, in which acclaimed novelists each retell one of Shakespeare’s plays as a contemporary novel. The series was announced in 2013 and published seven titles between 2015 and 2018, pairing well-known authors with plays of their choosing.
Jeanette Winterson opened the series with The Gap of Time (2015), a modern retelling of The Winter’s Tale. The lineup continued with Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name, Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl, and Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed, a retelling of The Tempest set in a Canadian prison. Tracy Chevalier relocated Othello to a 1970s elementary school in New Boy, Edward St Aubyn reimagined King Lear in the media world with Dunbar, and Jo Nesbo turned Macbeth into a crime thriller set in a drug-ridden city.
Each author brings their own style and setting to the source material, resulting in novels that range from literary fiction to genre storytelling. The series can be read independently of Shakespeare or as a companion to the original plays.