â The Winterâ s Tale is a kind of miracle play in which performance is of the essence of an exciting, imaginative, and inspiring plot embodied in visionary dialogue. This is a twenty-first-century edition with the solid twentieth-century scholarship of G. L. Kittredge. Muggli's contributions are designed less to interpret than â to facilitate the readerâ s interpretation,â and the reader and the play are primary in this presentation of The Winterâ s Tale.â â Tom Clayton, University of Minnesotaâ No edition gives such equal balance to the play as it appears on the page, the stage, and the screen as does the New Kittredge Shakespeare. [In] this edition of Winterâ s Tale . . . the reader is always in touch with the work in its multiple dimensions as a literary, theatrical, and cultural phenomenon. That approach makes Muggli's edition an excellent introduction to the play and equally an ally of the teacher and the director.â â Ralph Alan Cohen, Mary Baldwin CollegeGeorge Lyman Kittredgeâ s insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of this eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishmentsâ all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. The plays in the New Kittredge Shakespeare series retain the original Kittredge notes and introductions, changed or augmented only when some modernization seems necessary. These new editions also include introductory essays by contemporary editors, notes on the plays as they have been performed on stage and film, and additional student materials. These plays are being made available by Focus Publishing with the permission of the Kittredge heirs.Mark Z. Muggli is Professor and Department Head of English at Luther College, where he developed the â Our Shakespeareâ project (www.luther.edu/english/ourshakespeare).