The Winter's Tale | Leontes
In the following essay, Roger Trienens examines Leontes's apparently sudden and unfounded jealousy in Act I, scene ii, of The Winter's Tale. Trienens observes that most critics view Leontes's jealousy as either a weakness in Leontes's nature, or as improbable, and a flaw in Shakespeare's construction of the play. In the second essay, Michael Taylor examines the character of Leontes as an "innocent" figure. Taylor argues that by the play's end, this primal innocence is replaced by a new and more mature type of innocence, in which...
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