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The Winter's Tale
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
Editor(s): Robert Kean Turner, Virginia Westling Haas
Pages: xxvii & 979 pp.
Published: 2005
ISBN: 9780873522946
"Anyone who still delights in books that are lavishly furnished with scrupulously compiled and generous detail will lose himself with pleasure and profit in this new volume. A highly welcome innovation to the volume is the inclusion of a CD with the complete text of the edition in a PDF file."
Editionen in der Kritik
Inaugurated in the 1860s and the standard reference edition of Shakespeare's work, the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare continues the tradition of the original Variorum editions of the early nineteenth century. The latest edition, The Winter's Tale, not only contains the complete text of the play but also presents the expanse of scholarly opinion and interpretation from the earliest commentary to the present. It covers dating, sources, and emendations to stage history and influential interpretations of particular words.
New Variorum editions are valuable resources for an international audience of scholars, students, directors, actors, and general readers. Overseen by two general editors and an MLA committee, the production of each edition is conducted by a team of scholars and researchers working over a number of years. Recent publications in the series include As You Like It (ed. Richard Knowles) and Anthony and Cleopatra (ed. Marvin Spevack).
This Variorum volume includes a free CD that contains the contents as PDFs with internal links for easy navigation and is fully text-searchable.
Table of Contents
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
Preface
Plan of the Work
THE WINTER'S TALE: Text, Texual Notes, and Commentary
Appendix
Irregular, Doubtful, and Emended Accidentals in F1
Unadopted Conjectures
- The Text
- Authenticity
- The 1623 Version of The Winter's Tale
- The F1 Copy
- Crane's Copy
- Crane's Reliability
- The Printer's Reliability
- Subsequent Early Editions
- The Date of Composition
- External Evidence
- Internal Evidence
- Summary
- Sources
- Primary Source
- Other Sources
- Possible Sources, Analogues, and Imitations
- Criticism
- General Assessments
- Genre
- Themes and Significance
- Drame à Clef
- Technique
- Characters
- The Winter's Tale on the Stage
- Performances
- The Text on the Stage
Music in The Winter's Tale
Bibliography
Index
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