The Winter's Tale

by Shakespeare, William; Orgel, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780192819567
• ISBN10: 0192819569
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 transcription of the trial of Anne Boleyn; and accounts of performances of the statue scene since the 19th century. The primary documents contextualize the dramatic genres of romance and tragicomedy; gender and family relations; political authority and resistance; country work and play; and the social, religious, and erotic uses of art.

Table of Contents

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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