Below you will find a large amount of texts and topics relevant to the play, as well as resources, which include links to outside sources, which may be used as guides, sources of information, etc. Click on each Section Title below to view the corresponding information.
Cavell, Stanley. "Recounting Gains, Showing Losses."
In Quest of the Ordinary. Chicago, U of Chicago P, 1988. 76-101.
Cooley, Ronald W. "Speech versus Spectacle: Autolycus, Class and Containment in
The Winter's Tale."
Renaissance & Reformation 21.3(1997): 5-23.
Desai, R. W. "'What Means Sicilia? He Something Seems Unsettled': Sicily, Russia, and Bohemia in
The Winter's Tale."
Comparative Drama 30.3(1996): 311-24.
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Enterline, Lynn. "'You Speak a Language That I Understand Not': The Rhetoric of Animation in
The Winter's Tale."
Shakespeare Quarterly 48.1(1997): 17-44.
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Fortier, Mark. "Married with Children:
The Winter's Tale and Social History; or Infanticide in Earlier Seventeenth-Century."
Modern Language Quarterly 57.4(1996): 579-603.
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Gibbons, Brian. "Erring and Straying Like Lost Sheep:
The Winter's Tale and
The Comedy of Errors."
Shakespeare Survey 50(1997): 111-23.
Gutierrez, Nancy. "Why William and Judith Both Need Their Own Rooms."
Shakespeare Quarterly 47.4(1996): 424-32.
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Hunt, Maurice, ed.
The Winter's Tale: Critical Essays. New York: Garland, 1995.
Johnson, Nora. "Ganymedes and Kings: Staging Male Homosexual Desire in
The Winter's Tale."
Shakespeare Studies 26(1998): 187-217.
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Kaplan, M. Lindsay and Katherine Eggert. "'Good Queen, My Lord, Good Queen': Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in
The Winter's Tale."
Renaissance Drama 25(1994): 89-118.
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Marrapodi, Michele. "'Of That Fatal Country': Sicily and the Rhetoric of Topography in
The Winter's Tale."
Shakespeare's Italy: Functions of Italian Locations in Renaissance Drama. Ed. Michele
Marrapodi, A.J. Hoenselaars, Marcello Cappuzzo, and F. Falzon Santucci. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1993. 213-28.
Mowat, Barbara A. "Rogues, Shepherds, and the Counterfeit Distressed: Texts and Infracontexts in
The Winter's Tale."
Shakespeare Studies 22(1994): 58-76.
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Tiongson, Nicole R. "Mother Knows Best: Matriarchal Domesticity, Public Intrusion on Private Order in Shakespeare's
The Winter's Tale."
Proceedings of the Seventh Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature. Ed. Jay Ruud. Aberdeen, SD: Northern State UP, 1999. 101-14.
