The Winter's Tale - Couverture souple

Shakespeare, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1903436354 ISBN 13 : 9781903436356

Editeur : The Arden Shakespeare, 2010

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.

John Pitcher is is Lecturer and Fellow in English at St. John's College, Oxford, UK.

Professor Richard Proudfoot served as Senior General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare for 35 years, until his retirement from King's in 1999. In 2001 The Arden Shakespeare published Proudfoot's Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Canon a critical overview of the scholarly achievements made in the field of Shakespeare studies by the end of the twentieth century.

ANN THOMPSON is Emeritus Professor in English at King' s College London UK.

David Scott Kastan is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Arden Shakespeare
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1903436354
• ISBN 13: 9781903436356
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Éditeur: Pitcher John
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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