The Winter’s Tale Resources
Websites
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The BBC does. Check out the BBC’s 60-Second Shakespeare for a look at how the play would translate to a newspaper story.
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David Farr discusses his dramatic choices in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of the play.
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In a pinch, you can read the play online. Just don’t expect any footnotes.
Movie and TV Productions
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This tends to be a favorite among literary critics. We love the staging of the statue scene.
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The BBC’s simple set design plays up the winter/summer dichotomy in The Winter’s Tale.
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This 26 minute animated production of the play uses stop-motion puppets.
Historical Documents
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Check out the first page of the play in the 1623 Folio.
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You can read Robert Greene’s Pandosto (originally published in 1588) here. This is Shakespeare’s major literary source for The Winter’s Tale.
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The story of Pygmalion (from Book 10 of Ovid’s Metamorphosis) partly inspired the stature scene in The Winter’s Tale. Read Arthur Golding’s 1567 translation of the story here.
Video
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Check out Leontes as he tries to convince himself that Mamillius is his biological son in this Royal Shakespeare Company production.
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Watch the animated version of The Winter’s Tale from “Shakespeare: The Animated Series.”
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Watch little Mamillius deliver these famous lines in the BBC production of the play.
Audio
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Images
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This picture is taken from a 2008 production at the Globe Theater.
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Artist Augustus Leopold Egg’s portrayal of the sheep-shearing feast (1845).