Category: The Winter’s Tale

Thank you to Mario DiGangi for introducing us to The Winter’s Tale.

Mario DiGangi, Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, is the author of The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama (Cambridge, 1997) and Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley (Pennsylvania,  2011). He has edited Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer’s Night Dream for the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare and The Winter’s Tale for the Bedford Shakespeare: Text and Contexts series. In 2016, he served as President of the Shakespeare Association of America. He is currently completing The Winter’s Tale: Language and Writing, for Arden Shakespeare.

Many thanks to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.

Here are some resources to help guide your way into The Winter’s Tale:

• Resources, character map, and infographic from Course Hero.
• Find good resources on The Winter’s Tale from Murray State University and No Sweat Shakespeare.
• View a synopsis of the play from Finger Puppet Shakespeare or Bard101x.
• Listen to a full audiobook performance.
• See full performances of The Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare by the Sea and the New Swan Shakespeare Festival.

Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.

Enjoy these images of The Winter’s Tale from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Find more here.