WINTER S TALE - RSC Shakespeare

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's great play of death and rebirth.THIS BOOK INCLUDES: - An introduction to The Winter's Tale by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate- The play - with clear explanatory notes on each page - An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre- A rich exploration of approaches to staging The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or to participate in it. This book presents a historical overview of The Winter's Tale in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading directors - Adrian Noble, Barbara Gaines and Dominic Cooke - so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.