{"product_id":"romances-introduction-by-tony-tanner-9780679454878","title":"Romances: Introduction by Tony Tanner","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare's last four plays carry us across space and time--from classical antiquity to Roman Britain to pagan Sicily to a remote island--and they move as well into a wilder geography of the imagination, one dominated by the wondrous and fantastical, and by reconciliation and renewal. \u003ci\u003ePericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest \u003c\/i\u003eare famously fraught with shipwrecks and adventures, magic and disguise, speaking statues and ethereal spirits, tragic deceptions and moving reunions, and they number among the most enduringly delightful of Shakespeare's works. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The texts of the plays, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented here with textual notes, a bibliography, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which acclaimed scholar Tony Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare's oeuvre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679454878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.39h x 5.47w x 1.44d","brand":"William Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44493205962933,"sku":"9780679454878","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2dc41bc8-2c0a-4e14-aac3-4b64bfd5e0c1.jpg?v=1721747498","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/romances-introduction-by-tony-tanner-9780679454878","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}