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THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE: THE WINTER'S TALE
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| By: |
William Shakespeare, Stephen Orgel, Stephen Orgel (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£187.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198129491 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198129493 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 August, 1996 |
| Series: |
The Oxford Shakespeare |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most fully realized tragicomedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity of its poetry. Moving from paranoid jealousy to pastoral romance, in a world that mirrors in significant ways the concerns of Jacobean England, the play concludes with the most extraordinary of Shakespeare's reconciliation scenes. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
halftones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |