The Winter's Tale (Arden Shakespeare, Third Series)
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By William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (Editor), Richard Proudfoot (Editor), Ann Thompson (Editor), David Scott Kastan (Editor), H. R. Woudhuysen (Editor)
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One of Shakespeare's later plays, best described as a tragicomedy, 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 bestfriend, 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 t...






















