The Oxford Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale

By:

William Shakespeare

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Hardback

Series:

The Oxford Shakespeare

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The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragicomedy, 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 realistic 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, traced 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.

Author Biography:

Stephen Orgel is Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities at Stanford University.

Release date NZ

August 15th, 1996

Author

William Shakespeare

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by Stephen Orgel

Illustrations

halftones

Pages

304

Series

The Oxford Shakespeare

Dimensions

146x226x20

ISBN-13

9780198129493

Product ID

2499997

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