The Winter's Tale: The Oxford Shakespeare Paperback / softback
by William Shakespeare
Edited by Stephen (Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Huma Orgel
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi- comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity of its poetry.
It concludes, moreover, with the most daring and moving reconciliation scene in all Shakespeare's plays. Though the title may suggest an escapist fantasy, recent criticism has seen in the play a profoundly realist psychology and a powerful commentary on the violence implicit in family relationships and deep, longlasting friendships.
Stephen Orgel's edition considers the play in relation to Renaissance conceptions of both dramatic genre and the family, traces the changing critical and theatrical attitudes towards it, and places its psychological and dramatic conflicts within the Jacobean cultural and political context.
The commentary pays special attention to the play's linguistic complexity, and the edition also includes a complete reprint of Shakespeare's source, Pandosto, by Robert Greene.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages, halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:17/04/2008
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- ISBN:9780199535910
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Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages, halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:17/04/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199535910
