- Title
- The Winter's Tale shaping our own Renaissance. A play for the 21st Century
- Creator
- Wright, Laurence
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 1999
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455874
- Identifier
- vital:75464
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_198
- Description
- The Winters Tale is an extraordinarily elusive play. My contention in this paper" is that, just as Hamlet became the Shakespearean drama for the nineteenth century, and King Lear spoke deeply to the twentieth centu-ry, so it may well be that The Winters Tale will take centre stage for the new millennium. We used to know what the play was about in an easy, non-problematic fashion. It was about repentance and reconciliation; it was about the cycle of the seasons; it was about the Pandosto sub-title,“The Triumph of Time"; later, it became a tricksy celebration of con-tention between Art and Nature (despite the considerable discomfort inflicted upon the dramatis personae), an experiment in the new genre of tragicomedy, or a glittering theatrical tour de force–a romance, but heartless and rather empty. I would maintain that beneath all such read-ings is the assumption that the play is really “a winter's tale': a some-what inconsequential yarn suitable for whiling away a cold evening round the fireside, a view often infused with some lingering taint of the Edwardian view that Shakespeare had “gone sloppy” in his technique."
- Format
- 5 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Wright, L., 1999. The Winter's Tale: shaping our own Renaissance. A play for the 21st Century. Shakespeare in Southern Africa, 12(1), pp.1-7, Shakespeare in Southern Africa volume 12 number 1 1 7 1999 2071-7504
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