The winter's tale
By: ed. by Frederick E. Pierce.
Contributors: Pierce, F. E. 1878-1935, ed.
Series: The Yale Shakespeare
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1918
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Description: This romance revolves around a theme that occupied Shakespeare later in life: reconciliation. Wrongs committed by one generation, here a wife unjustly accused of adultery, are made right by the next generation.
Notes: "Suggestions for collateral reading": p. [135]
Contains facsimile reproduction of "the first page of 'The winter's tale' from the earliest printed edition, the Shakespeare folio of 1623 ... The facsimile has been made from the Elizabethan club copy ... and is about one-third the size of the original."