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The Winter's Tale (New Penguin Shakespeare)
The Winter's Tale - New Penguin Shakespeare Author:William Shakespeare, Ernest Schanzer (Editor) The Winter's Tale was one of the very last plays Shakespeare wrote, a moving romance whose themes are sin, forgiveness, death, rebirth, and the power of Time and Nature to heal all wounds. Based on a novella by Shakespeare's enemy and arch rival Robert Greene, The Winter's Tale introduces Perdita, perhaps the Bard's... more » most richly symbolic character.
At times tragic, at times humorous, but always entertaining and instructive, The Winters Tale is a complex and rewarding work by the greatest dramatist of all time.