The Winter's Tale (Vol. 91) | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Beauregard, David N. “Shakespeare against the Skeptics: Nature and Grace in The Winter's Tale.” In Shakespeare's Last Plays: Essays in Literature and Politics, edited by Stephen W. Smith and Travis Curtright, pp. 53-72. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2002.
Argues that The Winter's Tale reveals Shakespeare's Roman Catholic religious perspective in that it follows the orthodox progression of penance through “the movements of contrition, confession, and satisfaction.”
Fawkner, H. W. “Negative Miracle.” In Shakespeare's Miracle Plays: Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale, pp. 57-118. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1992.
Maintains that Shakespeare's dramatic treatment of the miraculous in The Winter's Tale is an artistic regression compared to his earlier romances, but acknowledges the effort as the playwright's willingness to...
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