The Winter's Tale

William Shakespeare, Susan Snyder, Deborah T. Curren-Aquino , Professor Brian Gibbons

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English

Cambridge University Press
08 March 2007

Shakespeare plays

Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems and an extensive introduction. The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's most varied, theatrically self-conscious, and emotionally wide-ranging plays. Much of the play's copiousness inheres in its generic intermingling of tragedy, comedy, romance, pastoral, and the history play. In addition to dates and sources, the introduction attends to iterative patterns, the nature and cause of Leontes' jealousy, the staging and meaning of the bear episode, and the thematic and structural implications of the figure of Time. Special attention is paid to the ending and its tempered happiness. Performance history is integrated throughout the introduction and commentary. Appendices include the theatrical practice of doubling.

By: William Shakespeare
Edited by: Susan Snyder, Deborah T. Curren-Aquino
Other adaptation by: Professor Brian Gibbons, A. R. Braunmuller
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 610g
ISBN: 9780521221580
ISBN 10: 0521221587
Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 08 March 2007
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Genre and title; Iterative patterns: sameness with a difference; Leontes' jealousy in criticism and performance; 'Exit pursued by a bear'; The figure of Time; Act 5 and the triumphs of Time; The Winter's Tale's sense of an ending: happiness qualified; Date; Sources; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Supplementary notes; Textual analysis; Appendices: A. Simon Forman's notes on The Winter's Tale; B. Some doubling possibilities in The Winter's Tale; C. The Winter's Tale in performance: selected issues, scenes, and passages; D. The Winter's Tale: a select performance chronology; Reading list.

Susan Snyder was formerly a scholar in residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library and a former Professor of English at Swarthmore College. Deborah T. Curren-Aquino is Reader at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC.

Reviews for The Winter's Tale

'… The New Cambridge Shakespeare produces superb editions that rank with the Arden and the Oxford as the best in the business. This year's The Winter's Tale is no exception.' Studies in English Literature