The Winter's Tale (Winter's Tale, #11) (Sweet Cherry Easy Classics) (NEW LONGMAN LITERATURE)

by William Shakespeare

Susan Snyder (Editor) and Deborah T. Curren-Aquino (Editor)

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.

• ISBN13: 9780521293730
• Publish Date: 8 March 2007 (first published December 1931)
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Cambridge University Press
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 306
• Language: English

Reviews

[Bookstooge]

2 1/2 stars

[clementine]

The thing is that this was for school, and I am done with that class, and I don't really want to write a review for it, but I did like it and its fantastical elements and highly improbable storyline, and it was kind of weird and definitely imperfect, but overall one of the better plays we read this past semester, and this is all I am going to write.