{"product_id":"the-winters-tale-new-oxford-shakespeare-9780198871873","title":"The Winter's Tale: New Oxford Shakespeare","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e'It is required\u003cbr\u003eYou do awake your faith'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVariously seen as a romance, a comedy, and a tragic fairytale, \u003cem\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Oxford Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eABOUT 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Shakespeare,Harry Newman,Terri Bourus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.73h x 5.17w x 0.46d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198871873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Shakespeare \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHarry 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, \u003cem\u003eImpressive Shakespeare: Identity, Authority and the Imprint\u003c\/em\u003e 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\" (\u003cem\u003eShakespeare Bulletin\u003c\/em\u003e, co-edited with Sarah Dustagheer) and \"Character Beyond Shakespeare\" (\u003cem\u003eJournal for Early Modern Cultural Studies\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTerri 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 \u003cem\u003eYoung Shakespeare's Young Hamlet\u003c\/em\u003e (2014). She has written essays on stage directions, the performance of religious conversion, Shakespeare and Fletcher's \u003cem\u003eCardenio\u003c\/em\u003e, the role of Alice in \u003cem\u003eArden of Faversham\u003c\/em\u003e, and Middleton's female roles. Bourus is an Equity actor, and has directed and acted in, two very different productions of \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e, both based on Q1.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"William Shakespeare \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48944170696861,"sku":"9780198871873","price":11.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_fe5de263-80e7-4803-b808-1adf8cde860f.jpg?v=1790155083","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-winters-tale-new-oxford-shakespeare-9780198871873","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}