Spoilers This is a very strange play. While Shakespeare stayed within the bare conventions of his time in writing plays he is fundamentally an experimental author and this play is one of his more experimental works. The play is nominally a comedy but the first three acts read like tragedy and th...
Well... This was a lot more fun than I expected.I don't usually read literature books (I'm even a little bit prejudiced against them), and I don't really like poetry, but I had never read Shakespeare before, and I thought I should. I didn't want to read something whose story I already knew from top ...
Some people have suggested that when it comes to very old, or even ancient literature, the fact that we still have it is testimony to the lasting quality of that work, and as such it should not be rated, or more aptly receive a low rating, because of that. Okay, I agree that this is certainly the ca...
Well, yes, another Shakespeare's tale that I have listened to. I know for sure he will never be my favourite author, but I will try to read all his plays.Synopsis (Wikipedia):King Leontes of Sicilia begs his childhood friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, to extend his visit to Sicilia. Polixenes prot...
It’s Othello-lite. Jealousy without the evil and a focus on redemption instead of despair. Shakespeare starts by leading in with two Acts of tragedy then spins it into a romantic, sort of funny, comedy. It’s a pretty bold switch-up and it fits in with some of the other problem plays like Measure ...
I'm bringing this down a star the second time through, because as enjoyable as the second half is, the first half is nearly unbearable. Leontes is a dipshit and everything bad that happens in this play didn't need to happen at all if he wasn't such a dipshit. That said, if he wasn't a dipshit, there...
This play marks the end of my Shakespeare reading marathon. The Winter's Tale is actually a good place on which to end, since it’s essentially a blending of tragedy and comedy, more in keeping with the concept of a courtly romance, focusing on the themes of loss and reconciliation. The beginning has...
As with the other Shakespeare, this was from my course in London. I’d never read it before, only the Lamb’s Tales summary, which is hardly the same thing. A beautiful story of loss, redemption, and forgiveness, this goes in my top four. Again, it was helped by seeing a splendid production, but the p...
I listened to the audio version of this Shakespeare play a year ago and just now noticed that I didn't add it to my Goodreads list of books. So I'm adding it belatedly. Because of the passage of time, it's plot isn't so fresh in my mind. I do recall that it is unique for Shakespeare in that the au...
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