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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: William Shakespeare , John PitcherPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: The Arden Shakespeare Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.536kg ISBN: 9781903436356ISBN 10: 1903436354 Pages: 496 Publication Date: 26 July 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , A / AS level , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'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 ‘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 * 'Shakespeare's perturbing fable' * Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph, 18.12.10 * 'An age which loves science fiction and fantasy should take The Winter's Tale to heart' * Libby Purves, The Times, 18.12.10 * 'Cleverly and clearly designed for study, notes and commentary appear on the same page as the text and the introduction encompasses the play's historical, cultural and performance contexts as well as a survey of critical approaches.' * Sardines Magazine (Autumn 2010) * One of Shakespeare's more problematic romances gets a picture-book treatment in Coville's new rendition. Jealous King Leontes suspects without reason that his wife and best friend are having an affair. Despite the protests of his most trusted advisors, he sentences his wife to death and demands that her newborn babe be cast into the wilderness. There the child is discovered by a kindly shepherd and raised as a peasant until the day a wayfaring prince falls in love with her. In true Shakespearean fashion, all works out well in the end with true identities discovered, families reunited and multiple weddings to boot. For a tale of suspected infidelity and death, author and artist do as much as they can for what boils down to a fairly adult story. Some judicious editing of the text would not have been out of place - the character of Autolycus weighs down an otherwise succinct narrative. Yet the cleverly selected direct quotes and theatrical watercolor and gouache images make this a more than adequate companion to the original play. (Picture book/play. 7-10) (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationJohn Pitcher is Professor of English at St John's College, Oxford. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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