The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

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The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

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The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's most varied, theatrically self-conscious, and emotionally wide-ranging plays. This 2007 edition provides a newly-edited text, a comprehensive introduction that takes into account current critical thinking, and a detailed commentary on the play's language designed to make it easily accessible to contemporary readers.

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The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems and an extensive introduction. The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's most varied, theatrically self-conscious, and emotionally wide-ranging plays. Much of the play's copiousness inheres in its generic intermingling of tragedy, comedy, romance, pastoral, and the history play. In addition to dates and sources, the introduction attends to iterative patterns, the nature and cause of Leontes' jealousy, the staging and meaning of the bear episode, and the thematic and structural implications of the figure of Time. Special attention is paid to the ending and its tempered happiness. Performance history is integrated throughout the introduction and commentary. Appendices include the theatrical practice of doubling.
'… The New Cambridge Shakespeare produces superb editions that rank with the Arden and the Oxford as the best in the businessThis year's The Winter's Tale is no exception.' Studies in English Literature
Susan Snyder was formerly a scholar in residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library and a former Professor of English at Swarthmore College. Deborah T. Curren-Aquino is Reader at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC.
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ISBN 13 9780521293730
ISBN 10 0521293731
Title The Winter's Tale
Author William Shakespeare
Series The New Cambridge Shakespeare
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2007-03-08
Number of pages 306
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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