The Winter's Tale
Often thought of as a lesser work, frequently performed with alterations and embellishments, The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's late plays defying easy classification. In the First Folio it appears last among the comedies.
For many modern editors the play is a romance inspired by those of the Middle Ages. While others refer to The Winter's Tale as a "problem play" mixing the tragic with comic and pastoral elements.
Often thought of as a lesser work, frequently performed with alterations and embellishments, The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's late plays defying easy classification. In the First Folio it appears last among the comedies.
For many modern editors the play is a romance inspired by those of the Middle Ages. While others refer to The Winter's Tale as a "problem play" mixing the tragic with comic and pastoral elements.
The poet John Dryden deemed the play a failure "grounded in impossibilities." Alexander Pope thought only a few scenes or passages were actually by Shakespeare. Lytton Strachey felt the author was "bored to death" when writing it.
The longest Broadway run was 39 performances in 1946.
The longest Broadway run was 39 performances in 1946.
