Shakespeare, William
The Winter's tale: the Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare - London Routledge 1996 - ixxxix,225p. - The Arden Shakespeare .
One of Shakespeare's later plays, best described as a tragi-comedy, the play falls into two distinct parts. In the first Leontes is thrown into a jealous rage by his suspicions of his wife Hermione and his best-friend, and imprisons her and orders that her new born daughter be left to perish. The second half is a pastoral comedy with the "lost" daughter Perdita having been rescued by shepherds and now in love with a young prince. The play ends with former lovers and friends reunited after the apparently miraculous resurrection of Hermione.
0415027101
English literature- Drama
Shakespeare, William
822.33 / SHA/T
The Winter's tale: the Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare - London Routledge 1996 - ixxxix,225p. - The Arden Shakespeare .
One of Shakespeare's later plays, best described as a tragi-comedy, the play falls into two distinct parts. In the first Leontes is thrown into a jealous rage by his suspicions of his wife Hermione and his best-friend, and imprisons her and orders that her new born daughter be left to perish. The second half is a pastoral comedy with the "lost" daughter Perdita having been rescued by shepherds and now in love with a young prince. The play ends with former lovers and friends reunited after the apparently miraculous resurrection of Hermione.
0415027101
English literature- Drama
Shakespeare, William
822.33 / SHA/T