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  • Published: 1 November 1998
  • ISBN: 9781101119037
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

The Winter's Tale





Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery

The Newly Revised Signet Classic Shakespeare Series The work of the world’s greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholars


The Winter’s Tale


Unique Features of the Signet Classic Shakespeare

•An extensive overview of Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet

•Special introduction to the play by the editor, Frank Kermode, Fellow of the British Academy


•Source from which Shakespeare derived The Winter’s Tale—a generous selection from Robert Greene’s Pandosto


•Dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by Simon Forman, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, E.M.W. Tillyard, G. Wilson Knight, Carol Thomas Neely, and Coppelia Kahn


•A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable productions of The Winter’s Tale, then and now


•Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type


•Up-to-date list of recommended readings

  • Published: 1 November 1998
  • ISBN: 9781101119037
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

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