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)
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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