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The Winter's Tale: Third Series de William Shakespeare

The Winter's Tale: Third Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

Autor William Shakespeare Editat de John Pitcher
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 iul 2010
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781903436356
ISBN-10: 1903436354
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 20 illustrations in introduction
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:2nd edition
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția The Arden Shakespeare
Seria The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

'a play where miracles do happen and redemption does eventually come, but at a terrible price'
'Like all of Shakespeare's later plays, this is a realistic fairy tale'
'Shakespeare's perturbing fable'
'An age which loves science fiction and fantasy should take The Winter's Tale to heart'
'Cleverly and clearly designed for study, notes and commentary appear on the same page as the text and the introduction encompasses the play's historical, cultural and performance contexts as well as a survey of critical approaches.'

Notă biografică

JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as 'the best modern book on Shakespeare.' In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen 'for services to Higher Education'.

ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project - one of the most visited Shakespeare websites in the world. For over nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.

Cuprins

FOREWARD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
SHAKESPEARE’S LIFE
SHAKESPEARE’S THEATER
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
ABBREVIATIONS
THE WINTER’S TALE
APPENDIX A: SOURCES
  1. Robert Greene, Pandosto (1588)
  2. From Ovid, Metamorphoses
    1. Pygmalion
    2. Ceres and Proserpina
    3. Callisto
APPENDIX B: ANALOGS
  1. From James VI of Scotland, Basilikon Doron (1599)
  2. From Robert Greene, The Second and Last Part of Coney-Catching and the Third and Last Part of Coney-Catching (1592)
  3. From God’s Handi-Work in Wonders (1615)
WORKS CITED AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Neither comedy nor tragedy, The Winter's Tale contains elements of each genre, and defies easy classification. It experiments, like many of Shakespeare's late plays, with different styles and tones, and draws on a wide range of sources and inspirations. Full of mysteries and miracles, grief and dark humour, this strange play has fascinated critics and theatregoers for centuries. Theatrical and cinematic productions have tried to capture the range of interpretations and staging possibilities presented by The Winter's Tale, and the introduction to this edition explores the play's long history in performance and in criticism. Illustrations and extended notes interleaved throughout the text discuss the echoes of religious, scientific, and mythological texts found in the play.

Caracteristici

This is the first edition of The Winter's Tale to be developed by and for the RSC, the world's leading Shakespeare theatre company and it includes unique material to help the reader understand and enjoy Shakespeare on the stage as well as on the page
Illustrated with photographs of classic and unusual performances
Outstanding on-page notes which explain words and phrases unfamiliar to a modern audience, including the slang, political references and bawdy humour often ignored or censored in competing editions
Includes scene-by-scene summary, offering an easily understandable way into the play
Completely new introduction by Jonathan Bate, exploring the text and critical debates around it
Summary of the play's performance history, at the RSC and elsewhere
Interviews with important Shakespearean directors Dominic Cooke, Adrian Noble and Gregory Doran discussing key productions at the RSC