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Shakespeare based The Winter's Tale on Robert Greene's 1588 play Pandosto, but he flipped the tragic ending that Greene wrote to a decidedly much happier one.  

Today's Work · Tuesday, April 14, 2026

5(+) slides, 5 minutes: please prepare for presentations tomorrow!  

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.

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A16109126/GLS?u=cclc_cerroccc&sid=GLS&xid=4b335403 (Links to an external site.)

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.

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A84213190/GLS?u=cclc_cerroccc&sid=GLS&xid=2415cac4 (Links to an external site.)

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.

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A378680381/GLS?u=cclc_cerroccc&sid=GLS&xid=5e3db4dc (Links to an external site.)

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 · Tuesday, April 14, 2026

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.