The Arden Shakespeare 2nd Series Winter's Tale, The
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Book
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ISBN 10
1903436001
ISBN 13
9781903436004
Category
Fiction/Littérature
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Publication Year
2002
Publisher
Pages
225
Subject
Classic Shakespeare Annotated
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Abstract
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.
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