William Shakespeare

The Winter’s Tale

£3.99

Trade Orders Education Orders Shop Local

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.

The Winter’s Tale, one of Shakespeare’s later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions. Thematically, there is a rich orchestration of the contrasts between age and youth, corruption and innocence, decline and regeneration. Both Leontes’ murderous jealousy and Perdita’s love-relationship with Florizel are eloquently intense. In the theatre, The Winter’s Tale often proves to be diversely entertaining and deeply moving.

This volume is part of the acclaimed Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series.

Macbeth (Collector’s Edition)

Collector's Editions

Hamlet (Collector’s Edition)

Collector's Editions

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Collector’s Edition)

Please select your country preference

Share

Details

The Winter’s Tale

£3.99

Buy Now

Share

Details

Other titles by William Shakespeare

Macbeth (Collector’s Edition)

Hamlet (Collector’s Edition)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Collector’s Edition)

Romeo and Juliet (Collector’s Edition)

Antony and Cleopatra

As You Like It

Hamlet

Henry V

Julius Caesar

King Lear

Macbeth

Measure for Measure

The Merchant of Venice

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Othello

Romeo and Juliet

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest

Twelfth Night

The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare

Richard II

Henry IV Parts 1 & 2

Richard III

William Shakespeare

Articles related to The Winter’s Tale

Stefania Ciocia looks at The Winter’s Tale