The Winter's Tale, 9780198871873
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Shakespeare’s tragicomic fairytale: faith, magic, and startlingly new interpretations await.
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    208 pages

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    1 July 2026

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Summary

A Radical Experiment: Unveiling Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale

‘It is required You do awake your faith.’

Variously seen as a romance, a comedy, and a tragic fairytale, The Winter’s Tale is a radical experiment with genre, character, and storytelling towards the end of Shakespeare’s career as a playwright. Addressing key cultural, religious, and theatrical contexts, this edition’s introduction explores the play’s preoccupation with fiction and game-play, its fraught represen…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198871873
ISBN-10:0198871872
Series:Oxford World's Classics
Author:William Shakespeare, Harry Newman, Terri Bourus, Emma Smith
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:1 July 2026
Weight:0g
Dimensions:196mm x 129mm
About The Author

William Shakespeare

Harry Newman is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. He studied at the University of Leeds and The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, and has taught at the University of Kent. His first monograph, Impressive Shakespeare: Identity, Authority and the Imprint in Shakespearean Drama, was published in 2019 and short-listed for the University English Book Prize. He has edited special journal issues on “Metatheatre and Early Modern Drama” (Shakespeare Bulletin, co-edited with Sarah Dustagheer) and “Character Beyond Shakespeare” (Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies).

Terri Bourus is Professor of Theatre and Professor of English at Florida State University. She is a General Editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare and the author of Young Shakespeare’s Young Hamlet (2014). She has written essays on stage directions, the performance of religious conversion, Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Cardenio, the role of Alice in Arden of Faversham, and Middleton’s female roles. Bourus is an Equity actor, and has directed and acted in, two very different productions of Hamlet, both based on Q1.

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