![]() ![]() Winterson has given greater visibility and substance to the play’s minor parts, perhaps because they allow more scope for invention. Later, another character directly quotes The Winter’s Tale, an effect that jars slightly and can’t help but cause the reader to wonder how, if she’s so familiar with the play, has she not recognised that she’s living it – particularly since they all have the same names? ![]() Perdita’s mother Hermione – reinvented here as French singer MiMi – has a Wikipedia entry that claims she made her acting debut “in Deborah Warner’s adaptation of The PowerBook – a novel by the British writer Jeanette Winterson”. The whole book is acutely aware of its own artifice, drawing attention to it in the way that Shakespeare’s plays so often do. The novel is composed according to the play’s acts, including two “Intervals”, in which the narrator invites us to step out of the story and consider its themes in relation to ourselves. ![]()
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