Volume Introduction / Harold Bloom
Biography of William Shakespeare
Summary of The Winter's Tale
Key Passages in The Winter's Tale
List of Characters in The Winters Tale
Criticism Through The Ages
The Winter's Tale in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
From “Defence of the Epilogue,” contained in The Conquest of Granada 1670 / John Dryden
From the preface to The Works of Shakespeare 1725 / Alexander Pope
From Shakespeare Illustrated 1753 / Charlotte Lennox
From Florizel and Perdita. A Dramatic Pastoral in Three Acts, Altered from The Winter's Tale of Shakespeare 1756 / David Garrick
The Winter's Tale in the Nineteenth Century
From Characters of Shakespear's Plays 1817 / William Hazlitt
From Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature 1846 / A.W. Schlegel
From Shakespeare-Characters, Chiefly Those Subordinate 1863 / Charles Cowden Clarke
The Winter's Tale in the Twentieth Century
From William Shakespeare 1911 / John Masefield
From Shakespeare's Workmanship 1918 / Arthur Quiller-Couch
From The Crown of Life: Essays in Interpretation of Shakespeare's Final Plays 1947 / George Wilson Knight
From Character and Motive in Shakespeare: Some Recent Appraisals Examined 1949 / J.I.M. Stewart
From Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare 1987 / Stanley Cavell
“Autolycus in The Winter's Tale” 1998 / Richard McCabe
The Winter's Tale in the Twenty-first Century
From “Virtual Audiences and Virtual Authors: The Winter's Tale The Tempest and Old Wives'Tales” 2009 / Mary Ellen Lamb
