The Winter's Tale review " love comes to the fore in poetic production
Octagon, Bolton David Thacker's third stab at Shakespeare's late play reveals deep contemplation of its themes, with Leontes's agony soothed by heart-stopping tendernessThe wildly disparate halves of The Winter's Tale conclude with two of the most notoriously implausible stage directions in the canon: "Exit, pursued by a bear" and "Hermione comes down" " signifying that the character who has been standing like a stat…