The Winter's Tale

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of one of Shakespeare''s last plays. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of The Winter''s Tale in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with directors Dominic Cooke, Adrian Noble and Gregory Doran- providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare''s career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare''s works for the twenty-first century.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Bate, Bate Jonathan, Eric Rasmussen, William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Jonathan Bate (Editor), Eric Rasmussen (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.2009
• EAN: 9780230576162
• ISBN: 978-0-230-57616-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 11 mm
• Series: The RSC Shakespeare; Royal Shakespeare Company; The RSC Shakespeare; Présentoir boîte plein; Royal Shakespeare Company
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; B, Shakespeare, History, English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, Classic plays / drama