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  • The Winter's Tale: Third Series

    The Winter's Tale by Shakespeare, William; Pitcher, John;

    Third Series

    Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series;

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    Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
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    Product details:

    • Edition number New ed
    • Publisher The Arden Shakespeare
    • Date of Publication 26 July 2010
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781903436356
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages496 pages
    • Size 196x128x32 mm
    • Weight 520 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 20 illustrations in introduction
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    Short description:

    One of Shakespeare's late plays, The Winter's Tale falls into two distinct parts: the first part tragedy and the second, comedy. John Pitcher's lively introduction and commentary explores the extraordinary merging of theatrical forms in the play and its success in performance.

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    Long description:

    One of Shakespeare's later plays, best described as a tragi-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.

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