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"the Winter's Tale" (Paperback, Revised)
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"the Winter's Tale" (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Shakespeare at Stratford Series
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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)
The Arden Shakespeare, in association with the Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust, presents a new series of volumes on Shakespeare's
plays in performance. The series discusses and analyses the wide
range of theatrical interpretation stimulated and provoked by the
most frequently performed plays. Each volume explores how different
directors, designers and actors have interpreted and adapted an
individual play in terms of narrative focus, themes and characters,
scenery and costume. The focus is on productions at
Stratford-upon-Avon since 1945, on the basis that the record of
Shakespeare performances at Stratford's theatres offers a wider,
fuller and more various range of interpretation than is offered by
any other theatre company. The volumes also set this record in a
wider geographical and chronological context by means of a
historical overview of earlier productions and of productions
beyond Stratford. Published in conjunction with the Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust, each volume features a wealth of photographs
(many of them not previously seen in print) drawn from the archive
of RSC performance materials held in the Trust's library at the
Shakespeare Centre in Stratford. Shakespeare at Stratford will
surprise, inform and delight both students and scholars of
Shakespeare and performance history and the general reader with an
interest in theatre. For many years it was commonplace to dismiss
The Winter's Tale as too complex or too crudely constructed to be
staged successfully. This in-depth study demonstrates how
individual performances have challenged this viewpoint and testify
rather to the play's stage-worthiness and its potent effect on
audiences. Dr Tatspaugh gives an overview of the play'sstage
history and a detailed discussion of nine productions, revealing
how directors, designers and actors have explored the richness of
this late romance, and how their explorations have revealed the
compelling nature of the play in performance.
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