| The Winter's Tale Revised Edition Contributor(s): Shakespeare, William (Author), Watts, Cedric (Introduction by), Watts, Cedric (Notes by) |
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ISBN: 1853262358 ISBN-13: 9781853262357 Publisher: Wordsworth Editions OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Shakespeare |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| Lexile Measure: 1110 |
| Series: Wordsworth Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 4.98" W x 7.79" (0.19 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions. Thematically, there is a rich orchestration of the contrasts between age and youth, corruption and innocence, decline and regeneration. Both Leontes' murderous jealousy and Perdita's love-relationship with Florizel are eloquently intense. In the theatre, The Winter's Tale often proves to be diversely entertaining and deeply moving. |