The Winter's Tale
(2006)
Fiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2006
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (2hr., 52 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781982498641 MWT11093680, 1982498641 11093680
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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King Leontes of Sicilia is seized by sudden and terrible jealousy of his wife Hermione, whom he accuses of adultery. He believes the child Hermione is bearing was fathered by his friend Polixenes, and when the baby girl is born he orders her to be taken to some wild place and left to die. Though Hermione's child escapes death, Leontes' cruelty has terrible consequences. Loss paves the way for reunion, and life and hope are born out of desolation and despair. One of the late romances in Shakespeare's canon, this complex work is at times tragic, at times humorous, but always entertaining and enlightening
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