The Winter's Tale (Arden Shakespeare, Third Series) Poetry_Gift_Guide Blackwell's Book of the Year

Blackwell's Book of the Year

Is sexual strangling a good hobby for young people to have

what the hell happened

and what God does

The Winter's Tale (Arden Shakespeare, Third Series) Poetry_Gift_Guide Blackwell's Book of the YearOne of Shakespeare's later plays, best described as a tragicomedy, 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 bestfriend, and imprisons her and orders that her new born daughter be left to perish. The second half is a pastoral comedy with the "lost" daughter Perdita having been rescued by shepherds and now in love with a young prince. The play ends with