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One of Shakespeare’s late plays, The Winter’s Tale falls into two distinct parts: the first part tragedy and the second, comedy. John Pitcher’s lively introduction and commentary explores the extraordinary merging of theatrical forms in the play and its success in performance.
One of Shakespeare’s later plays, best described as a tragic-comedy, the play falls into two distinct parts. In the first Leontes is thrown into a jealous rage by his suspicions of his wife Hermione and his best-friend, and imprisons her and orders that her new born daughter be left to perish. The second half is a pastoral comedy with the \
