Author(s): Shakespeare, William, Watts, Prof. Cedric, M.A., Ph.D., Watts, Prof. Cedric, M.A., Ph.D., Carabine,,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 05/01/1995,
Pagination: 160 pages,
Series: Wordsworth Classics,
Imprint: Wordsworth Editions Ltd,
Published By: Wordsworth Editions Ltd,
Book Classification: Shakespeare plays
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781853262357
Description: 

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.