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You do awake your faith' Variously seen as a romance, a comedy, and a tragic fairytale, The Winter's Tale is a radical experiment with genre, character, and storytelling towards the end of Shakespeare's career as a playwright. Addressing key cultural, religious, and theatrical contexts, this edition's introduction explores the play's preoccupation with fiction and game-play, its fraught representation of misogyny and female agency, its foregrounding of nonhuman objects, animals and creatures (toys, spiders, bears, flowers, ghosts, statues), and its provocations on different kinds of faith and magical thinking. The introduction emphasises what was and is startlingly new and urgent about the play, in the early seventeenth century and in our own historical moment. But it also attends to the play's retrospective impulses as a work that looks back, achingly, at 'old tales' on the stage and beyond. The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes offer readers the latest thinking on the authentic texts (collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work) alongside innovative introductions from leading scholars. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive set of critical apparatus to give readers the best resources to help understand and enjoy Shakespeare's work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author: William Shakespeare,Harry Newman,Terri Bourus
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 07/09/2026
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.73h x 5.17w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780198871873
About the Author
William Shakespeare Harry Newman is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. He studied at the University of Leeds and The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, and has taught at the University of Kent. His first monograph, Impressive Shakespeare: Identity, Authority and the Imprint in Shakespearean Drama, was published in 2019 and short-listed for the University English Book Prize. He has edited special journal issues on "Metatheatre and Early Modern Drama" (Shakespeare Bulletin, co-edited with Sarah Dustagheer) and "Character Beyond Shakespeare" (Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies). Terri Bourus is Professor of Theatre and Professor of English at Florida State University. She is a General Editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare and the author of Young Shakespeare's Young Hamlet (2014). She has written essays on stage directions, the performance of religious conversion, Shakespeare and Fletcher's Cardenio, the role of Alice in Arden of Faversham, and Middleton's female roles. Bourus is an Equity actor, and has directed and acted in, two very different productions of Hamlet, both based on Q1.
You do awake your faith' Variously seen as a romance, a comedy, and a tragic fairytale, The Winter's Tale is a radical experiment with genre, character, and storytelling towards the end of Shakespeare's career as a playwright. Addressing key cultural, religious, and theatrical contexts, this edition's introduction explores the play's preoccupation with fiction and game-play, its fraught representation of misogyny and female agency, its foregrounding of nonhuman objects, animals and creatures (toys, spiders, bears, flowers, ghosts, statues), and its provocations on different kinds of faith and magical thinking. The introduction emphasises what was and is startlingly new and urgent about the play, in the early seventeenth century and in our own historical moment. But it also attends to the play's retrospective impulses as a work that looks back, achingly, at 'old tales' on the stage and beyond. The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes offer readers the latest thinking on the authentic texts (collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work) alongside innovative introductions from leading scholars. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive set of critical apparatus to give readers the best resources to help understand and enjoy Shakespeare's work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author: William Shakespeare,Harry Newman,Terri Bourus
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 07/09/2026
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.73h x 5.17w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780198871873
About the Author
William Shakespeare Harry Newman is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. He studied at the University of Leeds and The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, and has taught at the University of Kent. His first monograph, Impressive Shakespeare: Identity, Authority and the Imprint in Shakespearean Drama, was published in 2019 and short-listed for the University English Book Prize. He has edited special journal issues on "Metatheatre and Early Modern Drama" (Shakespeare Bulletin, co-edited with Sarah Dustagheer) and "Character Beyond Shakespeare" (Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies). Terri Bourus is Professor of Theatre and Professor of English at Florida State University. She is a General Editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare and the author of Young Shakespeare's Young Hamlet (2014). She has written essays on stage directions, the performance of religious conversion, Shakespeare and Fletcher's Cardenio, the role of Alice in Arden of Faversham, and Middleton's female roles. Bourus is an Equity actor, and has directed and acted in, two very different productions of Hamlet, both based on Q1.
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