The Winter's Tale ed. 2008 (Oxford World's Classics)
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780199535910
- ISBN10 0199535914
- Type Book
- Pages 327
- Collection Oxford World's Classics #
- Published 2008
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Sections
English LiteratureThe Winter's Tale ed. 2008 (Oxford World's Classics)
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi- comedy, 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 realist 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, traces 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.