The Winter's Tale
ISBN: 9780451527141 | 0451527143
Edition: RevisedFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Pub. Date: 9/1/1998
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This edition of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by five sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare. The text includes tracts on childbirth, jealousy, women's speech, rural festivities, and bears; royal proclamations and statutes about vagabonds and peddlers; popular ballads on marriage and monsters; treatises about monarchy, Catholic and Protestant theological debates, farm labor, and art collecting; a ... MORE
| Preface | p. vii |
| Plan of the Work | p. ix |
| The Winter's Tale: Text, Textual Notes, and Commentary | p. 1 |
| Appendix | |
| Irregular, Doubtful, and Emended Accidentals in F1 | p. 567 |
| Unadopted Conjectures | p. 569 |
| The Text | |
| Authenticity | p. 586 |
| The 1623 Version of The Winter's Tale | p. 586 |
| The F1 Copy | p. 590 |
| Crane's Copy | p. 598 |
| Crane's Reliability | p. 600 |
| The Printer's Reliability | p. 601 |
| Subsequent Early Editions | p. 601 |
| The Date of Composition | |
| External Evidence | p. 602 |
| Internal Evidence | p. 609 |
| Summary | p. 615 |
| Sources | |
| Primary Source | |
| Pandosto | p. 616 |
| Shakespeare's Use of Pandosto | p. 656 |
| General Indebtedness | p. 656 |
| Genre | p. 668 |
| Characters | p. 670 |
| Other Sources | |
| Robert Greene's Cony-Catching Pamphlets | p. 672 |
| The Second and last Part of Conny-catching | p. 673 |
| The Thirde and last Part of Conny-catching | p. 673 |
| Francis Sabie's Poems | p. 674 |
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Catharine Hall-Schor has performed as a professional musician in New York City for many years. In 1990 she received a degree in Anthropology from Columbia University
