The Winter's Tale (Vol. 45) | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Adams, Robert M. "The Winter's Tale." In Shakespeare: The Four Romances, pp. 90-122. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989.

Compares The Winter's Tale with Robert Greene's Pandosto, the prose romance thought to be Shakespeare's source for the play.

Bristol, Michael D. "Social Time in The Winter's Tale" In Big-time Shakespeare, pp. 147-74. London: Routledge, 1996.

Claims that spatio-temporal discontinuities shape the social relationships in the play.

Burton, Julie. "Folktale, Romance and Shakespeare." In Studies in Medieval English Romances: Some New Approaches, edited by Derek Brewer, pp. 176-97. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1988.

Positions The Winter's Tale in the history of Middle English romances according to its manipulation of the pattern of traditional folktale types, most notably the...

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