Daily Journal · Monday, April 13, 2026
A "winter's tale" is a story narrated to children before they go to bed. These tales are often associated with ballad or legend, a fairytale, or a ghost story. They are often exaggerated.
Today's Work · Monday, April 13, 2026
5 slides, 5 minutes: please prepare for presentations Wednesday.
Hardman, C. B. “Shakespeare’s ‘Winter’s Tale’ and the Stuart Golden Age.” The Review of English Studies, vol. 45, no. 178, May 1994, p. 221+. Gale Literature Resource Center.
Miko, Stephen J. “Winter’s Tale.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 29, no. 2, [Rice University, Johns Hopkins University Press], 1989, pp. 259–75, doi:10.2307/450474. JSTOR.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/450474 (Links to an external site.)
Snider, D. J. “SHAKSPEARE’S ‘WINTER’S TALE.’” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 1, Penn State University Press, 1875, pp. 80–98. JSTOR.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25665908
Hieatt, Charles W. “The Function of Structure in ‘The Winter’s Tale.’” The Yearbook of English Studies, vol. 8, Modern Humanities Research Association, 1978, pp. 238–48, doi:10.2307/3506776. JSTOR.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3506776 (Links to an external site.)
Rosenfield, Kirstie Gulick. “Nursing Nothing: Witchcraft and Female Sexuality in The Winter’s Tale.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 35, no. 1, Mar. 2002, p. 95+. Gale Literature Resource Center.
Stegner, Paul D. “Masculine and Feminine Penitence in The Winter’s Tale.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, vol. 66, no. 3, 2014, p. 189+. Gale Literature Resource Center.
Van Elk, Martine. “‘Our Praises Are Our Wages’: Courtly Exchange, Social Mobility, and Female Speech in The Winter’s Tale.” Philological Quarterly, vol. 79, no. 4, 2000, p. 429+. Gale Literature Resource Center.
https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A89390060/GLS?u=cclc_cerroccc&sid=GLS&xid=7383def2
Quote of the Day · Monday, April 13, 2026
The road to success is always under construction.