The Winter's Tale
Shakespeare, William/ Pitcher, John (Editor)
Language: English
Published by Arden Shakespeare, 2010
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- The Winter's Tale
- Author
- Shakespeare, William/ Pitcher, John (Editor)
- Publisher
- Arden Shakespeare
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1903436354
- ISBN 13
- 9781903436356
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Item weight
- 0.54 kilograms
One of Shakespeare's later plays, best described as a tragi-comedy, the play falls into two distinct parts. In the first Leontes is thrown into a jealous rage by his suspicions of his wife Hermione and his best-friend, and imprisons her and orders that her new born daughter be left to perish. The second half is a pastoral comedy with the "lost" daughter Perdita having been rescued by shepherds and now in love with a young prince. The play ends with former lovers and friends reunited after the apparently miraculous resurrection of Hermione.
John Pitcher's lively introduction and commentary explores the extraordinary merging of theatrical forms in the play and its success in performance. As the recent Sam Mendes production at the Old Vic shows, this is a play that can work a kind of magic in the theatre.
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About the Author
John Pitcher is is Lecturer and Fellow in English at St. John's College, Oxford, UK.
Professor Richard Proudfoot served as Senior General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare for 35 years, until his retirement from King's in 1999. In 2001 The Arden Shakespeare published Proudfoot's Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Canon a critical overview of the scholarly achievements made in the field of Shakespeare studies by the end of the twentieth century.
ANN THOMPSON is Emeritus Professor in English at King' s College London UK.
David Scott Kastan is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University, USA.
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