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The Winter's Tale
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Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781853262357
- ISBN-10: 1853262358
- Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
- Publish Date: January 1995
- Dimensions: 7.79 x 4.98 x 0.29 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.19 pounds
- Page Count: 160
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