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    <body><![CDATA[A masterpiece, demonstrating how grace redeems and love restores over time.  This play features one of Shakespeare's most interesting psychological studies (Leontes) and two of his most charming heroines (Hermione and Perdita).  Shakespeare's art has deepened to the point where he can deliberately c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1182619">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Shakespeare's last four, this usually gets filed under Romance in the more modern anthologies, but you could just as easily file it under fustercluck.  There's an underlying logic to this bifurcated tale, but I'm not sure I buy it.  It's a sharply divided tragi-comedy.  The first three acts a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7463782">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written near the very end of Shakespeare's run, this is a mature work from a mature writer. It has elements that are oddly light and somewhat comical but it's not quite a comedy. It's not a tragedy either. I think it's more a fairy tale about forgiveness late in life and magically being granted a se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22591">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember listening to my 12th grade english teacher explain why he didn't like the book.  It has too much, he said.  The romance and the lost child and the political intrigue and the clown and magic.  But that's exactly why I love it: the giant jumble of everything Shakespeare loved to explore.  I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14245382">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this play enough, but it certainly wasn't my favorite.  I thought the plot was good.  I thought the book raised interesting questions about faith and taking things at face value.  I only really thought the writing was especially good in a couple of places, I found some of the characters a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54940374">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ya know this guy wrote some good plays.  And a bucketload of em.   How exciting to know that I'm gonna keep discovering them for a long time.  <br/>Struggled with this.  The whole sexual jealousy thing just doesn't resonate with me (though I love Bloom and others' suggestion that it's really homose...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47398204">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to the audio version of this Shakespeare play a year ago and just now noticed that I didn't add it to my Goodreads list of books.  So I'm adding it belatedly. <br/><br/>Because of the passage of time, it's plot isn't so fresh in my mind.  I do recall that it is unique for Shakespeare in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38650503">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is a bizarre, ranging comedy. The play jumps so lightly between slapstick and cruelty that it’s unclear whether it’s a dark farce, a bloody satire exposing the dangers of absolute power, or a moldy amalgam of cuckoldry, class, and misogyny.<br/><br/>The prem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53329393">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite Shakespeare. The appendix included the story 'Pandosto' by Robert Greene, on which Shakespeare's play was based, which I found to be better in many respects (although not the ending). Uncharacteristically, the perpetrator of all the misery, who is justly punished for his jealously an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62341098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Winter's Tale</em> is one of my favorites from Shakespeare's catalog. Because it is (arguably) one of the later Romances, it hosts a blend of tragedy and comedy unlike any of the earlier works. It also features the  infamous, &quot;exeunt, pursued by bear&quot; stage direction that has been mocked an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52844282">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All I've ever heard about this play is that it's Shakespeare's &quot;most mature.&quot;  I'm still not exactly sure what that means, but I think I can see something like maturity in it.  It's not as carefree and silly as Twelfth Night or A Midsummer Night's Dream, nor is it as dense (and slightly de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45919177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this one problematic, it had a few excellent monologues and quotes but the plot was all over the place. Leontes is worse than Claudio with his suspicion and lack of faith in the woman he supposedly loves, and I loathe Much Ado (exempting the Benedick and Beatrice scenes) in large part becaus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65684796">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Does this play deserve 4 stars based solely on Shakespeare's name? For whatever reason, it ended up with 4 rather than 3 stars (come on, 3 would be an insult to my darling William). The Winter's Tale deserves 4 stars for 4 reasons:<br/><br/>1) It is THE bastard child of Shakespeare. It is so hilar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51805568">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I decided not to do an abridged version of this play because, frankly, it's already so ridiculous that I can't improve on it. Instead, we here at Madeline Reviews Inc present a fictionalized account of an event that probably occured right before the writing of this (thankfully) little-known play. En...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43534349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18135.Romeo_and_Juliet" title="Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> uses some old nasty elements of human nature--jealousy, judgment, selfishness--to teach us about some of humanity's greatest qualities: forbearance, patience, and forgiveness. Through Hermione's faithfulness in accusation, hopefulness in despair, and her offering of absolute forg...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39296698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A veces me da la sensación que con Shakespeare soy muy dura. Que una obra que en otros autores consideraría buena, si viene firmada por el tío Bill seguramente la consideraré regular (leed decepcionante), porque una parte de mí quiere que todas las obras de Shakespeare sean tan grandes como sus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32507851">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was assigned this book for a Shakespeare class I took in college.  It's fair to say I was fascinated with it from the beginning because it was the only play on the syllabus I had never read previously.  Even the unit on sonnets wasn't interesting because we had analyzed the same ones in high schoo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21012248">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this play. It was a comedy of Shakespeare's, so it wasn't dark and depressing. It began with two kings and one was visiting the other. When it was time for them to depart Leontes asked Polixenes to stay longer, Polixenes agreed after being begged and pursueded by the king and his wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19104947">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Labeled as one of Shakespeare's problem plays, this is an interesting twist of tales. It was interesting to see Shakes implore several narrative and plot tricks and still have a quality that reminds me of As You Like It. Winter's Tale is a tragedy, yet a  pastoral. There's a bear and ship sinking al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9704625">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was really lovely.  I am generally really nervous of the Comedies, because there is always that inevitable disconnect between what was funny to Elizabethans and what is funny to me.  I listened to this one on tape, and I think that helped a lot.  Autolycus was actually really funny at points, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30159350">more...</a>]]></body>
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