ABOUT THE SERIES
ABOUT THIS VOLUME
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Introduction
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PART ONE
William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale (Edited by David Bevington)
PART TWO
Cultural Contexts
1. ROMANCE AND TRAGICOMEDY
Sir Philip Sidney, From The Defense of Poesy
John Fletcher, From The Faithful Shepherdess
Robert Greene, From Pandosto: The Triumph of Time
Ovid, From Metamorphoses
2. GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND THE FAMILY
Gender Division in Childbirth and Childhood
William Gouge, From Of Domestical Duties
John Nichols, From The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King
James the First
Frederick Devon, From Issues of the Exchequer
Jacques Guillemeau, From Childbirth; Or, the Happy Delivery of Women with The Nursing
of Children
Conjugal Faultlines
John Milton, From Paradise Lost
Benedetto Varchi, From The Blazon of Jealousy
Michael Dalton, From The Country Justice
Thomas Bayly Howell, From A Complete Collection of State Trials
Death of Children
Robert Allyne, From Funeral Elegies upon the Most Lamentable and Untimely Death of
the Thrice Illustrious Prince Henry, Prince of Wales
William Haydon [W.H.], From The True Picture and Relation of Prince Henry His Noble
and Virtuous Disposition
Ben Jonson, On My First Daughter and On My First Son
3. AUTHORITY AND RESISTANCE
Monarch and Ministers
King James I of England, From The True Law of Free Monarchies
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Counsel
George Buchanan, From De Jure Regni apud Scotos
Women’s Speech: Attacks and Defenses
William Whately, From A Bride-Bush: Or A Direction for Married Persons
Joseph Swetnam, From The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women
Rachel Speght, From A Muzzle for Melastomus, the Cynical Baiter of, and Foul-Mouthed
Barker against, Eva’s Sex
Martin Parker, A Merry Dialogue Betwixt a Married Man and his Wife, Concerning the
Affairs of this Careful Life
4. ENCOUNTERING NATURE
Pursued by a Bear
Edward Topsell, from Of the Bear
Gerrit de Veer, from The True and Perfect Description of Three Voyages
Pastoral Preoccupations
George Puttenham, from The Art of English Poesy
John Fitzherbert, From Fitzherbert’s Book of Husbandry
Michael Drayton, The Ninth Eclogue
Phillip Stubbes, from The Anatomy of Abuses
Rogues and Peddlers
From An Act for Punishment of Rogues, Vagabonds, and Sturdy Beggars
From A Proclamation Inhibiting All Persons after Bartholomew-tide Next, to Use the Trade
of a Peddler or a Petty-Chapman
Robert Greene, From The Second and Last Part of Cony-Catching and The Third and Last
Part of Cony-Catching
The Description of a Rare or Rather Most Monstrous Fish Taken on the East
Coast of Holland
V. HERMIONE’S STATUE
Repentance, Devotion, and the Miraculous
From An Homily of Repentance
A.G., From The Widow’s Mite
William Crashaw, From The Jesuits’ Gospel
Death and Desecration
Reginald Scot, from The Discovery of Witchcraft
Thomas Middleton, from The Second Maiden’s Tragedy
Eroticizing the Statue
Ovid, from Metamorphoses
Artists, Patrons, and Collectors
Henry Peacham, Of Antiquities
Performing the Statue
James Boaden, From Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble
Thomas Campbell, From Life of Mrs. Siddons
Brian Pearce, From Granville Barker’s Production of The Winter’s Tale
Harley Granville-Barker, From Preface to The Winter’s Tale
Dennis Bartholomeusz, From The Winter’s Tale in Performance in England and America,
1611-1976
Mario DiGangi, An Account of Edward Hall’s Watermill Theatre Production by
Propeller
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX