The Winter's Tale - (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides) by Todd Borlik & Peter Kirwan (Hardcover)

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Book Synopsis An international group of scholars reappraise The Winter's Tale through a series of research essays covering performance history, critical history, and new interpretations . Navigating the play's fluctuating genre conventions, onstage spectacle and leaps across time, scholars consider how eco-materiality, radical hospitality, childhood, gender, and critical race studies shape contemporary understandings and staging of a play that defies easy definition. By charting these changing interpretive trends, readers are introduced to a rich body of scholarship which shows how the play can be used to confront the experiences of those marginalized by race, age, gender, and nationality, …