The winter's tale : a critical reader / edited by Peter Kirwan and Todd Andrew Borlik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirwan, Peter, editor.

Borlik, Todd Andrew, editor.

Series:

Arden early modern drama

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Winter's tale--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

xvii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Critical reader

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : The Arden Shakespeare, 2025.

Summary:

"An international group of scholars reappraise The Winter's Tale through a series of research essays covering performance history, critical history and new interpretations. Navigating the play's fluctuating genre conventions, onstage spectacle and leaps across time, scholars consider how eco-materiality, radical hospitality, childhood, gender and critical race studies shape contemporary understandings and staging of a play that defies easy definition. By charting these changing interpretive trends, readers are introduced to a rich body of scholarship which shows how the play can be used to confront the experiences of those marginalized by race, age, gender and nationality, to place fresh attention on the economic and material structures that define the dramatic plot of the play. As The Winter's Tale's depictions of patriarchal violence, vulnerability, economic disparity, border crossings and exploitation continue to draw attention, this guide serves as an invaluable resource for scholars, students and audiences alike."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Peter Kirwan

The critical backstory: critical approaches, 1611-2000 / Mario DiGangi

The performance history: The Winter's Tale in performance from the ends of opposed winds / Yu Jin Ko

The state of the art: body and soul: twenty-first-century approaches to The Winter's Tale, 2000-2023 / Christina Luckyj

New directions: recycled actors: eco-materiality and doubling in The Winter's Tale/ Mark Beatrice Kaethler

New directions: radical hospitality and The Winter's Tale / Ruben Espinosa

New directions: "Things newborn"; or, "Waiting for Proserpina": regendering childhood in The Winter's Tale / Gemma Miller

New directions: was Leontes black? / Todd Andrew Borlik

Teaching and learning resources / Yan Brailowsky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1350439258

9781350439252

OCLC:

1436909772