The Winter's Tale (Signet Classics)

The Winter’s Tale

Unique Features of the Signet Classic Shakespeare

•An extensive overview of Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet

•Special introduction to the play by the editor, Frank Kermode, Fellow of the British Academy

•Source from which Shakespeare derived The Winter’s Tale—a generous selection from Robert Greene’s Pandosto

•Dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by Simon Forman, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, E.M.W. Tillyard, G. Wilson Knight, Carol Thomas Neely, and Coppelia Kahn

•A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable productions of The Winter’s Tale, then and now

•Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type

•Up-to-date list of recommended readings

• The Merchant of Venice (Signet Classics)
• As You Like It (Signet Classics)
• Henry IV, Part 1 (Signet Classics)
• King Lear (Signet Classics)
• Richard III (Signet Classics)
• Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (Signet Classics)
• Measure for Measure (Signet Classics)
• The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra (Signet Classics)
• The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
• Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Twelfth Night; The Tempest (Signet Classics)