The Winter's Tale

By William Shakespeare

Edited by Hardin Aasand

Table of contents

• Editor's introduction
• Texts of this edition
• About this edition
• Facsimiles
• Related Life And Times pages
• Performances
• Performance materials

Editor's introduction

1. The Winter's Tale: Introduction
2. The Winter's Tale: Critical Reception
3. The Winter's Tale: Performance History
4. The Winter's Tale: Textual Introduction
5. William Shakespeare and The Winter's Tale: A Brief Chronology
6. The Winter's Tale: Bibliography

Texts of this edition

• The Winter's Tale: List of Characters
• The Winter's Tale (Modern)
• The Winter's Tale (Folio 1, 1623)

Supplementary and related materials

Text analysis tools
Explore the character scrolls as used by Shakespeare's actors, find out which actors appear in each scene, and more.

Facsimiles

• First Folio (1623) from State Library of New South Wales
• First Folio (1623) from Brandeis University Library
• Second Folio (1632) from State Library of New South Wales
• Third Folio (1664) from State Library of New South Wales
• Fourth Folio (1685) from State Library of New South Wales

Related Life And Times pages

• The Winter's Tale
• The Court: love and hate
• "Exit pursued by a bear"
• The country: pastoral
• Autolycus
• Winter's tales and the "unities"

Performances

• The Winter's Tale (2012, American Shakespeare Center, USA)
• The Winter's Tale (2008, Sacha Reich, USA)
• „The Winter's Tale“ Das Wintermärchen (2008, Shakespeare Festival im Globe Neuss, Germany)
• Das Wintermärchen (2007, Shakespeare Festival im Globe Neuss, Germany)
• The Winter's Tale (2007, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• The Winter's Tale (2006, Bard on the Beach, Canada)
• The Winter's Tale (2006, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• The Winter's Tale (2005, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• The Winter's Tale (2005, The Old Globe, USA)
• The Winter's Tale (2005, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, USA)
• The Winter's Tale (2005, Shakespeare Festival im Globe Neuss, Germany)
• Shakespeare's Comic Olympics (2004, Upstart Crow Theatre Group, Canada)
• The Winter's Tale (2004, Atlanta Shakespeare Company, USA)
• The Winter's Tale (2002, Shakespeare Theatre Company, USA)
• The Winter's Tale (2000, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, Canada)
• The Winter's Tale (2000, American Repertory Theatre, USA)
• The Winter's Tale (2000, Shakespeare and Company, USA)
• The Winter's Tale (2000, Shakespeare by the Sea - Sydney, Australia)
• The Winter's Tale (2000, Brentwood Shakespeare Company, UK)
• The Winter's Tale (1999, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• 21 more performances…

Performance materials

• audio artifacts (5 artifacts)
• magazine artifacts (6 collections)
• newsletter artifacts (2 collections)
• other artifacts (1 collection, 1 artifact)
• pamphlet artifacts (4 collections, 7 artifacts)
• photograph artifacts (1 artifact)
• postcard artifacts (2 collections)
• poster artifacts (1 collection, 4 artifacts)
• press clipping artifacts (3 artifacts)
• press release artifacts (1 collection, 3 artifacts)
• production notes artifacts (1 collection)
• production still artifacts (59 artifacts)
• program artifacts (16 collections)
• review artifacts (4 collections, 29 artifacts)
• script artifacts (1 artifact)