Speech Versus Spectacle: Autolycus, Class and Containment in The Winter's Tale

By Ronald W. Cooley

Shakespeare's Winter's Tale is a play in which theatrical spectacle triumphs over speech, as stage action obscures the incoherence of verbal representation. This paper identifies Autolycus as a composite of Jacobean anxieties about the sources of…

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