What makes The Winter’s Tale so compelling? In anticipation of the Folger Theatre production (Mar 13 – Apr 22), Folger Director Michael Witmore shares spoiler-free insights about this Shakespeare play in three short videos.
Here’s why he considers The Winter’s Tale his favorite Shakespeare play:
In this video, Witmore reflects on one of his favorite lines from The Winter’s Tale: “an art that nature makes…” See the line in context using Folger Digital Texts, a free Folger resource for reading and searching Shakespeare’s plays.
Why do we call The Winter’s Tale a romance? Romances are “very clearly stories about things that happen that are impossible or just improbable,” Witmore says.
The Winter’s Tale, directed by Aaron Posner
Onstage at Folger Theatre Mar 13 – Apr 22.
Tickets: $35-79
Transporting us from Sicilia to Bohemia and safely home once more, Shakespeare’s spellbinding tale of jealousy, prophecy, and redemption celebrates the magic of story-telling and the power of forgiveness.
The Winter’s Tale is my favorite too. I think the depiction of jealousy,is one of the best in all literature, even more powerful than Othello, but I loved the ending too.
Mine too..for its mastery of language, its shaping, its wisdom, its compassion towards us in our human frailty and vulnerability, in its enactment of sin, guilt, expiation, the renewal in each generation, in its deep probing of the relation of art and life, and in the beauty of life throughout..