[12] Hogarth intended to release the series in 2016 to coincide with the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
[14] Later that year, it was announced that Margaret Atwood and Howard Jacobson would join the series with The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice adaptations respectively.
The Hogarth Shakespeare series intends to reimagine the entire canon, but no other adaptations have been announced.
[14] Sometimes before March 2021, what was the official URL for the series (hogarthshakespeare.com) started to link to the site of an online magazine specialising in animes and mangas, called Anime Shakespeare, which, together with the lack of an announcement for a new title in over two years, seems to imply that the project has been quietly shut down by Hogarth/Penguin.
[citation needed] Winterson's The Gap of Time was a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards in the category Bisexual Fiction.