The Winter's Tale

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.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:William Shakespeare - Уильям Шекспир

Publisher:Wordsworth Editions

Language:English

Publication Date:1995

Number of pages:160 pst

Format:Paperback

Width:129 mm / 5,1'

Height:198 mm / 7,8'

Weight:130 g

ISBN:9781853262357