The Winter's Tale (Paperback, New Ed)

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)

This new addition to the Cambridge School Shakespeare series takes account of the work of the Shakespeare and Schools Project, the national curriculum for English and developments at GCSE and A Level. It treats The Winter's Tale as theatre and its text as script, enabling pupils to inhabit the imaginative world of the play in a meaningful and creative way.Cambridge School Shakespeare encourages students to participate actively in examining the plays, to work in groups as well as individually, to treat the plays as scripts to be re-created, and to explore their theatrical/dramatic qualities.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge School Shakespeare
Release date:	February 1999
First published:	1998
Authors:	William Shakespeare
Editors:	Elizabeth Huddlestone • Sheila Innes
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	220
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-59955-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare plays, texts Books > Children's & Educational > Language & literature > English (including English as a school subject) > English literary criticism > General Books > Children's Fiction & Fun
LSN:	0-521-59955-5
Barcode:	9780521599559

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