Winter's Song
by William Shakespeare
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An illustrated version of the concluding song of William Shakespeare's play "Love Labour's Lost" that explores the sights and sounds of winter.Tags
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Shakespeare, William. Winter Song. Illus. Melanie Hall. Wordsong, Honesdale, PA, 2006.
This is a single illustrated song from William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost. The song describes life in wintry England. Scenes of kitchen life, religious attendance, feasting and festivities are depicted.
The color palette of the artwork suggests winter’s cold with its whites, pale blues and dark blues. Speckles of white symbolize snow. Interior house scenes glow with orange and red warm colors. The scrubbed effect of paint and chalk on rough paper gives the pictures texture. The overall effect is very impressionistic. Some of the text is given an artistic treatment that suggests icicles through its angularity in the initial letter of each show more line of verse. The artwork definitely helps tell the story of the song.
This book would be best introduced to ages nine and up. Although, the book includes a glossary in the back, most children would find this poem more challenging than many that they are used to. This is an age where children have the ability to enjoy word play, puzzles and secret codes.
An extension to this poem would be to rewrite a winter poem in the child’s own natural language and then to illustrate it and capture the wintry mood of the poem. show less
This is a single illustrated song from William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost. The song describes life in wintry England. Scenes of kitchen life, religious attendance, feasting and festivities are depicted.
The color palette of the artwork suggests winter’s cold with its whites, pale blues and dark blues. Speckles of white symbolize snow. Interior house scenes glow with orange and red warm colors. The scrubbed effect of paint and chalk on rough paper gives the pictures texture. The overall effect is very impressionistic. Some of the text is given an artistic treatment that suggests icicles through its angularity in the initial letter of each show more line of verse. The artwork definitely helps tell the story of the song.
This book would be best introduced to ages nine and up. Although, the book includes a glossary in the back, most children would find this poem more challenging than many that they are used to. This is an age where children have the ability to enjoy word play, puzzles and secret codes.
An extension to this poem would be to rewrite a winter poem in the child’s own natural language and then to illustrate it and capture the wintry mood of the poem. show less
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William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616 Although there are many myths and mysteries surrounding William Shakespeare, a great deal is actually known about his life. He was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, son of John Shakespeare, a prosperous merchant and local politician and Mary Arden, who had the wealth to send their oldest son to Stratford Grammar School. show more At 18, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, the 27-year-old daughter of a local farmer, and they had their first daughter six months later. He probably developed an interest in theatre by watching plays performed by traveling players in Stratford while still in his youth. Some time before 1592, he left his family to take up residence in London, where he began acting and writing plays and poetry. By 1594 Shakespeare had become a member and part owner of an acting company called The Lord Chamberlain's Men, where he soon became the company's principal playwright. His plays enjoyed great popularity and high critical acclaim in the newly built Globe Theatre. It was through his popularity that the troupe gained the attention of the new king, James I, who appointed them the King's Players in 1603. Before retiring to Stratford in 1613, after the Globe burned down, he wrote more than three dozen plays (that we are sure of) and more than 150 sonnets. He was celebrated by Ben Jonson, one of the leading playwrights of the day, as a writer who would be "not for an age, but for all time," a prediction that has proved to be true. Today, Shakespeare towers over all other English writers and has few rivals in any language. His genius and creativity continue to astound scholars, and his plays continue to delight audiences. Many have served as the basis for operas, ballets, musical compositions, and films. While Jonson and other writers labored over their plays, Shakespeare seems to have had the ability to turn out work of exceptionally high caliber at an amazing speed. At the height of his career, he wrote an average of two plays a year as well as dozens of poems, songs, and possibly even verses for tombstones and heraldic shields, all while he continued to act in the plays performed by the Lord Chamberlain's Men. This staggering output is even more impressive when one considers its variety. Except for the English history plays, he never wrote the same kind of play twice. He seems to have had a good deal of fun in trying his hand at every kind of play. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, all published on 1609, most of which were dedicated to his patron Henry Wriothsley, The Earl of Southhampton. He also wrote 13 comedies, 13 histories, 6 tragedies, and 4 tragecomedies. He died at Stratford-upon-Avon April 23, 1616, and was buried two days later on the grounds of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. His cause of death was unknown, but it is surmised that he knew he was dying. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Henry Irving Shakespeare: Volume 1: Love's Labour's Lost, A Comedy of Errors, Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (indirect)
3 Plays: Love's Labour's Lost; The Merchant of Venice; A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (indirect)
5 Plays: The Comedy of Errors; Love's Labours Lost; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Taming of the Shrew; The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (indirect)
4 Plays: As You Like It; Love's Labour's Lost; The Merchant of Venice; Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (indirect)
W. Shakespeare's dramatische Werke : Deutsche Volksausgabe. Bd. 7-9 by William Shakespeare (indirect)
The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete by William Shakespeare (indirect)
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- Canonical title
- Winter's Song
- Original title
- Winter's song
- Alternate titles
- When icicles hang by the wall; Winter Song; Winter
- Original publication date
- 1598
- People/Characters
- Don Adriano de Armado
- Important places
- Navarre, Spain; Spain
- Important events
- 16th century; 1570s; Winter
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