Binding: Paperback
Description: 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. About THE Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up - to - date bibliographies for further study and much more.
Title: The Winter's Tale: The Oxford Shakespeare
Author(s): Shakespeare William, Orgel, Stephen (Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor Of Humanities, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor Of Humanities, Stanford University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199535910
Pages: 304 Pages, Halftones
Publication Date: 5/15/2008
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights