CRITICISM

Bennett, Kenneth C. “Constructing The Winter's Tale.” Shakespeare Survey 46 (1993): 81-90.

Examines the relationship between unity and deconstruction in the play.

Cooley, Ronald W. “Speech Versus Spectacle: Autolycus, Class and Containment in The Winter's Tale.” Renaissance and Reformation 21, No. 3 (Summer 1997): 5-23.

Focuses on the character Autolycus as a representation of the Jacobeans and argues that through Autolycus, Shakespeare explores themes of social instability and assimilation.

Gallagher, Lowell. “‘This seal’d-up Oracle’: Ambivalent Nostalgia in The Winter's Tale.” Exemplaria 7, No. 2 (Fall 1995): 465-98.

Considers the concepts of nostalgia and belatedness as they relate to Leontes and Hermione.

Girard, René. “The Crime and Conversion of Leontes in The Winter's Tale.” Religion and Literature 22, Nos. 2-3 (Summer/Autumn 1990): 193-219.

Focuses on Leontes's transformation and argues that The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most moving play.

Horwitz, Eve. “‘The Truth of Your Own Seeming’: Women and Language in The Winter's Tale.” Unisa English Studies 26, No. 2 (September 1988): 7-14.

Considers language and time as they relate to femininity in The Winter's Tale.

Johnson, Nora. “Ganymedes and Kings: Staging Male Homosexual Desire in The Winter's Tale.” Shakespeare Studies 26 (1998): 187-217.

Explores the relationship between theater, identity, and homosexual desire in The Winter's Tale.

Jordan, Constance. “The Winter's Tale.” In Shakespeare's Monarchies: Ruler and Subject in the Romances, pp. 107-46. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Argues that Shakespeare employed pastoral themes and conventions in The Winter's Tale in order to explore the generation and demise of political authority.

Mazzola, Elizabeth. “‘Slippery Wives’ and Other Missing Persons: Disappearing Acts in The Winter's Tale.” Women's Studies 24, No. 3 (January 1995): 219-27.

Explores feminist theory and romance while considering the ease with which some characters in The Winter's Tale “seem to slip in and out of view.”

Platt, Peter G. “Reason Diminished: Wonder in The Winter's Tale.” In Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvelous, pp. 153-68. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.

Contends that Shakespeare pits the rational against the marvelous in The Winter's Tale.

Robinson, Randal. “Family by Death: Stage Images in Titus Andronicus and The Winter's Tale.” In From Page to Performance: Essays in Early English Drama, edited by John A. Alford, pp. 221-33. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995.

Analyzes the underlying meaning of the visual links between The Winter's Tale and Titus Andronicus.

Snyder, Susan. “Mamillius and Gender Polarization in The Winter's Tale.” Shakespeare Quarterly 50, No. 1 (Spring 1999): 1-8.

Considers the metaphoric role of the child Mamillius.

Watterson, William Collins. “Shakespeare's Confidence Man.” Sewanee Review 101, No. 4 (Fall 1993): 536-48.

Considers the autobiographical link between Shakespeare and the character Autolycus.