The Winter`s Tale

Tracy Young offers a new version of Shakespeares difficult tale of jealousy and redemption. The Winters Tale is one of Shakespeares 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 Youngs version of The Winters Tale transforms the theatergoing experience from Shakespeares time to ours. This translation updates Shakespeares language, wordplay, and wit to engage audiences the way they would have been engaged in the early modern theater. This translation of The Winters Tale was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festivals 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 Shakespeares 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 printa new First Folio for a new era.