The winter's tale: a critical reader /
An international group of scholars reappraise The Winter's Tale through a series of research essays covering performance history, critical history and new interpretations. Navigating the play's fluctuating genre conventions, onstage spectacle and leaps across time, scholars consider how ec...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
The Arden Shakespeare,
2025.
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| Summary: | An international group of scholars reappraise The Winter's Tale through a series of research essays covering performance history, critical history and new interpretations. Navigating the play's fluctuating genre conventions, onstage spectacle and leaps across time, scholars consider how eco-materiality, radical hospitality, childhood, gender and critical race studies shape contemporary understandings and staging of a play that defies easy definition. By charting these changing interpretive trends, readers are introduced to a rich body of scholarship which shows how the play can be used to confront the experiences of those marginalized by race, age, gender and nationality, to place fresh attention on the economic and material structures that define the dramatic plot of the play. As The Winter's Tale's depictions of patriarchal violence, vulnerability, economic disparity, border crossings and exploitation continue to draw attention, this guide serves as an invaluable resource for scholars, students and audiences alike. -- Cover page 4. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 272 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-263) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1350439258 9781350439252 |