The Winter’s Tale: Text and Performance
✍ Scribed by R. P. Draper (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 84
- Series
- Text and Performance
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages 1-8
Introduction....Pages 9-11
Structure....Pages 11-14
Winter: Leontes’ Jealousy....Pages 15-21
Winter: The Destruction of Innocence....Pages 21-27
Spring-Summer: The Sheep-Shearing Festival....Pages 27-33
Spring-Summer: The Affirmation of ‘Reason’....Pages 33-36
Autumn: The Changed Leontes....Pages 36-38
Autumn: Revelations....Pages 39-44
Introduction....Pages 45-51
Sets and Costumes....Pages 51-57
Leontes....Pages 57-60
Hermione and Perdita....Pages 60-62
Paulina....Pages 62-64
The Country Characters and Autolycus....Pages 64-69
‘Exit pursued by a bear’....Pages 70-71
Conclusion....Pages 71-76
Back Matter....Pages 77-80
✦ Subjects
British and Irish Literature; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature
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