The Winter's Tale

Name: The Winter's Tale
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781853262357

William Shakespeare

05/01/1995
Wordsworth Editions Ltd

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Winter's Tale par William Shakespeare

Résumé

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.