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The Winter's Tale
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Winter's Tale
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) William Shakespeare
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Introduction and notes by Prof. Cedric Watts
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Edited by Prof. Cedric Watts
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Series edited by Dr. Keith Carabine
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| Series | Wordsworth Classics |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:160 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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| Category/Genre | Shakespeare plays |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781853262357
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| Classifications | Dewey:822.33 |
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| Edition |
New edition
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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| Imprint |
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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| Publication Date |
5 January 1995 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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.
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