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Monday, December 13, 2010

What is the point of the brief opening scene (1.1, pp. 3-4)? How about 2.2? Or 3.1?

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Labels: Shakespeare, Winter's Tale

Is there an explanation for Leontes’ jealousy?

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How are we prepared for Leontes’ conversion to the truth (p. 48, III.ii.143-4)? Could he have taken the death of Mamillius another way?

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Is “Exit, pursued by a bear” (p. 54, III.iii.57) tragic or comic?

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Is the argument made by Polixenes on behalf of the superiority of nature to art (p. 68, IV.iv.88 ff.) also an argument against the marriage of Florize

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Why tell the story of the recognitions through minor characters (5.2) rather than show it?

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Does Hermione come back to life, or was she never dead?

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