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The Winter's Tale (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) 2nd Edition

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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.
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    0521293731
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0521293730
  3. Edition
    2nd
  4. Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
  5. Publication date
    April 9, 2007
  6. Part of series
    The New Cambridge Shakespeare
  7. Language
    English
  8. Dimensions
    5.98 x 0.77 x 8.98 inches
  9. Print length
    306 pages
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"Aimed at a more scholarly audience, the New Cambridge Shakespeare produces superb editions that rank with the Arden and the Oxford as the best in the business. This year’s The Winter’s Tale is no exception. Edited by the late Susan Snyder and Deborah T. Curren-Aquino, this edition has a lucid and intelligent introduction that covers all of the crucial elements of this complicated late play: genre; Leontes’ jealousy; the bear; Time; act V and the ending. There is also a fascinating discussion of the revision theory―Forman did not mention the statue scene in his 1611 account of the play, after all―but the edition decides against the theory, in spite of Snyder’s having made the most eloquent case for it in 2002. There is a very useful discussion of sources, the notes to the play are exemplary, and the Selected Reading list is both excellent and up-to-date. Although the appendix concentrates on performance issues (Forman’s notes on the play, doubling possibilities, key staging choices, a performance chronology), the edition is notable for its blend of textual and performance discussions. Especially effective is the decision to match photographs of the play in performance with the thematic issues under discussion. The visual variations on the statue scene are especially welcome and will be a boon in the classroom. Finally, although it has become fashionable in recent years for critics, editors, and directors to darken the ending, this edition opts for ambiguity rather than pessimism and seems truer to The Winter’s Tale’s hybrid, tragicomic spirit as a result."
-Studies in English Literature, Spring 2008

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This newly-edited 2007 edition of The Winter's Tale comes with a detailed introduction and full commentary.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (April 9, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 306 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521293731
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521293730
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1110
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.11 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 0.77 x 8.98 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and was baptised on 26 April 1564. Thought to have been educated at the local grammar school, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he went on to have three children, at the age of eighteen, before moving to London to work in the theatre. Two erotic poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were published in 1593 and 1594 and records of his plays begin to appear in 1594 for Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI. Shakespeare's tragic period lasted from around 1600 to 1608, during which period he wrote plays including Hamlet and Othello. The first editions of the sonnets were published in 1609 but evidence suggests that Shakespeare had been writing them for years for a private readership.

Shakespeare spent the last five years of his life in Stratford, by now a wealthy man. He died on 23 April 1616 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. The first collected edition of his works was published in 1623.

(The portrait details: The Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. NPG1, © National Portrait Gallery, London)

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Shirley Schwartz
5.0 out of 5 stars A gentle and melancholy play
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2007
Although this play is not one of Shakespeare's better known plays, it is one of his very best. It is a tragicomedy suffused by gentle melancholy. Unreasonable and cruel jealousy are also portrayed. We also have two endearing young lovers to liven up the story. These characters are very well-drawn, and the story is quite beautiful.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2016
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Great to read before seeing Sir Kenneth Branagh (Leave it to an Irishman to do Shakespeare so well.) and Dame Judi Dench in his new film version.
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1.0 out of 5 stars New Cambridge Shakespeare - Bad Formatting - Bring your microscope...
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2019
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The Winter's Tale (New Cambridge Shakespeare)

Another crappy formatting job by Cambridge University Press.

In order to read the play without insane and seemingly random line breaks, you have to set the font at its smallest size. When it's extremely hard to read. I checked it against Macbeth, in the same series. Macbeth is fine.

So for an extra five bucks, you get a practically unreadable text. Nice job Cambridge. Nice job Amazon.
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Anna-Lena Moser
5.0 out of 5 stars To the purpose
Reviewed in Germany on December 30, 2018
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Great for university purposes
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A. Wellwood
4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of information
Reviewed in France on September 5, 2018
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There is the play and a lot of explanations in relation to the text. There is also analysis and other information which can be helpful. It may be more for universities as it seems rather complete. Possibly too much information for secondary school pupils.
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Missy Owl
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative Book useful for Studies
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 18, 2017
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Brought this for my English Literature degree, and its definately worth the money!
Packed full off background information (context for better understanding) footnotes on the actual play to help you understand the words that we are not familar with and critical essays on a selection of themes within The Winters Tale.

Highly recommend to not only shakespeare fans, but also those studying this play, as the context and footnotes really help improve your understanding, giving this fantastic play the justice it deserves!
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AMDOG
4.0 out of 5 stars Hard reading
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2014
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If you love Shakespeare then this is for, I had to read this for University during my course. For all new students this is a must have as it can help with the learning you need to understand it.
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Dennis Whomsley
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
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Excellent in every way. Thank you.
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