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)
The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's most varied, theatrically
self-conscious, and emotionally wide-ranging plays. This 2007
edition provides a newly-edited text, a comprehensive introduction
that takes into account current critical thinking, and a detailed
commentary on the play's language designed to make it easily
accessible to contemporary readers. 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. Textual analysis, four appendices -
including the theatrical practice of doubling, and a select
chronology of performance history - and a reading list complete the
edition.
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