The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale Criticism

• The Winter's Tale (Vol. 57)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Language, Structure, And Plot
    • Nature and Art in Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare’s The Winter's Tale
    • Poetry and Plot in The Winter's Tale
  • Criticism: Sexuality And Authority
    • ‘Verily Bearing Blood’: Pornography, Sexual Love, and the Reclaimed Feminine in The Winter's Tale
    • ‘Good queen, my lord, good queen’: Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in The Winter's Tale
    • ‘You speak a language that I understand not’: The Rhetoric of Animation in The Winter's Tale
  • Criticism: Sources, Influences, And Ideologies
    • Metacriticism and Materiality: The Case of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
    • The Winter's Tale and Guarinian Dramaturgy
    • Engendering the Narrative Act: Old Wives' Tales in The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, and The Tempest
    • Weeping in the Upper World: The Orphic Frame in 5.3 of The Winter's Tale and the Archive of Poetry
  • Further Reading
• The Winter's Tale (Vol. 68)
  • Introduction
  • ‘By law and process of great nature … free'd’: The Winter's Tale.
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Boy Eternal
    • The Jealousy of Leontes: Act I
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of The Winter's Tale
    • Review of The Winter's Tale
  • Criticism: Themes
    • The Winter's Tale: The Triumph of Comedy over Tragedy
    • Pagan Ritual, Christian Liturgy, and Folk Customs in The Winter's Tale
    • Knowledge and Belief in The Winter's Tale
  • Further Reading
• The Winter's Tale (Vol. 81)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • The Winter's Tale and the Pastoral Tradition
    • The Tragicomic Perspective of The Winter's Tale
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • The Inception of Leontes' Jealousy in The Winter's Tale
    • Leontes's Enemy: Madness in The Winter's Tale.
    • The Good Queen (Acts 2 and 3)
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Off Broadway, The Winter's Tale
    • Assassins and Romance
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Theatricality and Mimesis in The Winter's Tale: The Instance of ‘Taking One by the Hand.’
    • Reason Diminished: Wonder in The Winter's Tale
    • ‘Our praises are our wages’: Courtly Exchange, Social Mobility, and Female Speech in The Winter's Tale.
    • Shakespeare, Modernity, and the Aesthetic: Art, Truth, and Judgement in The Winter's Tale.
  • Further Reading
• The Winter's Tale (Vol. 91)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • Bastards and Broadsides in The Winter's Tale
    • Teaching the Environment of The Winter's Tale: Ecocritical Theory and Pedagogy for Shakespeare
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Autolycus' Tale and The Winter's Tale: The Rogue in Shakespeare's Reparative Play
    • Reconsidering the Tragic Aspects of Leontes: Death and Laughter in The Winter's Tale
    • The Neurotic Subject of Tragedy: Fantasies of Female Evil in The Winter's Tale
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Bergman's Vision of Shakespeare
    • Review of The Winter's Tale
    • Review of The Winter's Tale
    • Spliffs and Butts
    • Time's Corporate Whirligig
    • Yankee Doodle Isn't Dandy
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Social Decorum in The Winter's Tale
    • Nursing Nothing: Witchcraft and Female Sexuality in The Winter's Tale
    • ‘Bearing Hence’ Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.
  • Further Reading
• Jacobean Muscovites: Winter, Tyranny, and Knowledge in The Winter's Tale
• The Winter's Tale (Vol. 36)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Recognition in The Winter's Tale
    • The 'Comic' Mode of The Winter's Tale
    • Time and Presence in The Winter's Tale
  • Leontes And Perdita
    • Oh My Most Sacred Lady: Female Metaphor in The Winter's Tale
    • Ambition and Original Sin in The Winter's Tale
    • Ritual as an Instrument of Grace: Parental Blessings in Richard III, All's Well That Ends Well, and The Winter's Tale
  • Jealousy
    • Jealousy in The Winter's Tale
    • When Does the Tragi-Comic Disruption Start?: The Winter's Tale and Leontes' 'Affection'
    • Recasting Jealousy: A Reading of The Winter's Tale
  • Structure
    • Leontes' Contrition and the Repair of Nature
    • The Function of Structure in The Winter's Tale
    • "We Are Mock'd With Art': The Winter's Tale
  • Further Reading
• You Speak a Language That I Understand Not: The Rhetoric of Animation in The Winter's Tale
  • Introduction
  • I. "Shall I Be Heard?"
  • Ii. "Not Guilty"
  • Iii. "Be Stone No More"
• The Winter's Tale (Vol. 45)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • An introduction to The Winter's Tale
    • The Winter's Tale; or, Filling Up the Graves
    • Pastoral and Nature and Art
  • Characterization
    • Rogues, Shepherds, and the Counterfeit Distressed: Texts and Infracontexts of The Winter's Tale 4.3
  • Dreams
    • Delusions and Dreams: The Winter's Tale
    • From Matter to Magic: The Winter's Tale
  • Time
    • The Truth of Your Own Seeming: Romance and the Uses of Dream
    • 'Grace and Remembrance': The Winter's Tale
• Ganymedes and Kings: Staging Male Homosexual Desire in The Winter's Tale
  • Introduction
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
• What Means Sicilia? He Something Seems Unsettled: Sicily, Russia, and Bohemia in The Winter's Tale
  • Introduction
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V