Mario DiGangi is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA. He is the author of The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama (1997) and Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley (2011) and has edited three plays of Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet.

• Series editor’s preface Preface Introduction - the language of genre What is a winter’s tale? The Winter’s Tale and comedy The Winter’s Tale and tragedy Sources, intertexts, allusions Writing matters 1 Engaging the language of the text(s) The texts of The Winter’s Tale Listening to the language of the opening scene Editorial interventions: Spelling, capitalization, punctuation Editorial additions: Stage directions Fallen language in The Winter’s Tale Writing Matters 2 Language: Style and form Prose, verse and rhyme Analyzing Shakespeare’s blank verse Soliloquies Hermione’s oration Reporting Writing matters 3 Language and history Women’s speech and authority Obedience and resistance Festive pleasures, festive dangers Faith, magic and art: The statue scene Writing matters 4 Writing and language skills Choosing an essay topic I Choosing an essay topic II: Creative approaches Writing the essay Bibliography Index