num_pages: 306
description: You can find an alternative cover for this ISBN here.The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems and an extensive introduction. The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's most varied, theatrically self-conscious, and emotionally wide-ranging plays. Much of the play's copiousness inheres in its generic intermingling of tragedy, comedy, romance, pastoral, and the history play. In addition to dates and sources, the introduction attends to iterative patterns, the nature and cause of Leontes' jealousy, the staging and meaning of the bear episode, and the thematic and structural implications of the figure of Time. Special attention is paid to the ending and its tempered happiness. Performance history is integrated throughout the introduction and commentary. Appendices include the theatrical practice of doubling.
language: English
title: The Winter's Tale
titlecomplete: The Winter's Tale
characters: Emilia, Dorcas (The Mysterious Affair at Styles), Camillo, Rogero, Florizel of Bohemia, Autolycus, Polixenes of  Bohemia, Steward, Officer, Gentleman, Time, Shepherd, reputed father to Perdita, Cleomenes, Leontes of Sicilia, Clown, Archidamus, Hermione of Sicilia, Dion, Mamilius, Paulina, Antigonus, Mariner, Mopsa, Perdita of Sicilia, Gaoler
genres: 17th Century, Theatre, School, Drama, Plays, Poetry, Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 32244
places: Sicily, Bohemia
publisher: Cambridge University Press