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The Winter's Tale - Third Series (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Winter's Tale - Third Series (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
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Loot Price R388
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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)
One of Shakespeare's later plays, best described as a
tragic-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. For more than a century
educators, students and general readers have relied on The Arden
Shakespeare to provide the very best scholarship and most
authoritative texts available.
The Third Series editions' added emphasis on all aspects of
Shakespeare performance extended the Arden editions readership to
also become the preferred text for theatre professionals.
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