Is The Souls of Black Folk a great book?

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

Is there an explanation for Leontes’ jealousy?

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?

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

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

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

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