
The Winter's Tale
new oxford shakespeare
$23.52
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2026
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 |
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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 |
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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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