{"product_id":"the-winters-tale-9781973705246","title":"The Winter's Tale","description":"\u003cb\u003eTracy Young offers a new version of Shakespeare's difficult tale of jealousy and redemption.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Shakespeare's most challenging explorations of redemption and rebirth. Driven by extreme jealousy, Leontes, the King of Sicily, accuses his wife Hermione of infidelity and orders his newborn daughter to be abandoned. Sixteen years later, Leontes must reckon with the consequences of his rash decisions. Tracy Young's version of \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e transforms the theatergoing experience from Shakespeare's time to ours. This translation updates Shakespeare's language, wordplay, and wit to engage audiences the way they would have been engaged in the early modern theater. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from \"The Bard\" in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print--a new First Folio for a new era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracy Young\u003c\/b\u003e is a theater director and playwright. Young has developed several original plays and musicals, including \u003ci\u003eHysteria, Euphoria, A Fairy Tale, Dreamplay, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMedea\/Macbeth\/Cinderella\u003c\/i\u003e (co-adapted with Bill Rauch)\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50366729388306,"sku":"9781973705246","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_54c0acc4-2688-4d0d-9080-83358ef7021d.jpg?v=1728477365","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-winters-tale-9781973705246","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}