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.
| ISBN: | 9781853262357 |
| Publication date: | 5th January 1995 |
| Author: | William Shakespeare, Professor Cedric, M.A. Ph.D. (Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex) Watts |
| Publisher: | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Wordsworth Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic and pre-20th century plays |