The Winter's Tale (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)

The Winter's Tale (New Cambridge Shakespeare)Another crappy formatting job by Cambridge University Press.In order to read the play without insane and seemingly random line breaks, you have to set the font at its smallest size. When it's extremely hard to read. I checked it against Macbeth, in the same series. Macbeth is fine.So for an extra five bucks, you get a practically unreadable text. Nice job Cambridge. Nice job Amazon.

Great to read before seeing Sir Kenneth Branagh (Leave it to an Irishman to do Shakespeare so well.) and Dame Judi Dench in his new film version.

Although this play is not one of Shakespeare's better known plays, it is one of his very best. It is a tragicomedy suffused by gentle melancholy. Unreasonable and cruel jealousy are also portrayed. We also have two endearing young lovers to liven up the story. These characters are very well-drawn, and the story is quite beautiful.

Brought this for my English Literature degree, and its definately worth the money!Packed full off background information (context for better understanding) footnotes on the actual play to help you understand the words that we are not familar with and critical essays on a selection of themes within The Winters Tale.Highly recommend to not only shakespeare fans, but also those studying this play, as the context and footnotes really help improve your understanding, giving this fantastic play the justice it deserves!

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Decent and highly detailed binding of Shakespeare's late, great, romantic comedy. Oodles of background and contextual information, highly specific notes, and an attractive front cover, mean that this is currently the definitive edition for teaching the play in schools.

There is the play and a lot of explanations in relation to the text. There is also analysis and other information which can be helpful. It may be more for universities as it seems rather complete. Possibly too much information for secondary school pupils.