The Winter's Tale

Reviews / Votes

'This is a learned, well-written [edition], chock full of texts I am eager to teach... DiGangi has approached his task energetically and imaginatively. For many students, Shakespeare's late plays seem especially challenging. For the first time, we will have a 'texts and contexts' edition of this play to help them find new ways into it as well as fresh possibilities for opening it out.'- Francis E. Dolan, University of California, Davis, USA 'The inclusion of materials with conflicting viewpoints (ie sheepshearings as idealized or denigrated) provides excellent pedagogical opportunities within the classroom, enabling students to form their own viewpoints. It also conveys a sense that ideas about sheepshearings and other matters were not necessarily fixed. This aspect of the collection presents wide appeal for both undergraduate and graduate students.'- Mary Ellen Lamb, Southern Illinois University, USA 'This edition shows that a romance like The Winter's Tale evokes many concerns and experiences of early modern life: constructs of time, maternity, familial relations, authority and resistance, beggars and con-artists, idolatry, belief in the resurrection - the list could go on at length given the diverse texts represented here.' - Valerie Wayne, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 'This is excellent in every way. DiGangi's selections are appropriate and capacious. I would certainly use this book in both my undergraduate and graduate Shakespeare courses. DiGangi is clearly an expert both on this particular play and on the unusually numerous literary and cultural contexts that bear upon it. This will be a model volume in [the] Texts and Contexts series.' - Richard Rambuss, Emory University, USA