The Winter's Tale: Third Series (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903436354 ISBN 13: 9781903436356

Verlag: The Arden Shakespeare, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

One of Shakespeare's later plays, best described as a tragi-comedy, the play falls into two distinct parts. In the first Leontes is thrown into a jealous rage by his suspicions of his wife Hermione and his best-friend, and imprisons her and orders that her new born daughter be left to perish. The second half is a pastoral comedy with the "lost" daughter Perdita having been rescued by shepherds and now in love with a young prince., The play ends with former lovers and friends reunited after the apparently miraculous resurrection of Hermione. John Pitcher's lively introduction and commentary explores the extraordinary merging of theatrical forms in the play and its success in performance. As the recent Sam Mendes production at the Old Vic shows, this is a play that can work a kind of magic in the theatre.

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Críticas:

'a play where miracles do happen and redemption does eventually come, but at a terrible price' Lyn Gardner, Guardian, 22.9.09 'Like all of Shakespeare's later plays, this is a realistic fairy tale' John Peter, Sunday Times, 20.9.09

Biografía del autor:

John Pitcher is Professor of English at St John's College, Oxford.

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• Verlag: The Arden Shakespeare
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1903436354
• ISBN 13: 9781903436356
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 476
• Herausgeber: Pitcher John