Reading popular romance in early modern England / by Newcomb, Lori Humphrey

Table of Contents: “…"Growne so ordinarie": producing Robert Greene's Pandosto and Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, 1585-92 -- Social things: commodifying Pandosto, 1592-1640 -- Material alteration: re-commodifying Dorastus and Fawnia and The Winter's tale, 1623-1843 -- The romance of service: The readers of Dorastus and Fawnia, 1615-1762.…”
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Spectacular science, technology and superstition in the age of Shakespeare /

Table of Contents: “…"Remedies for life" : curing hysterica passio in Shakespeare's Othello, Macbeth and The Winter's tale /…”
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Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion. by Porter, Chloe

Table of Contents: “…Early modern English drama and visual culture -- 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in The Winter's tale -- 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion -- 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay -- Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in The Two merry milkmaids.…”
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Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion / by Porter, Chloe

Table of Contents: “…Early modern English drama and visual culture -- 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in The Winter's tale -- 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion -- 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay -- Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in The Two merry milkmaids.…”
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Tragicomic redemptions : global economics and the early modern English stage / by Forman, Valerie

Table of Contents: “…Stasis and insularity in The merchant of Venice and Twelfth night -- The voyage out: Pericles -- Poverty, surplus value, and theatrical investment in The winter's tale -- Captivity and "free" trade: Fletcher's The island princess and English commerce in the East Indies in the early 1600s -- Balance, circulation, and equity in the "prosperous voyage" of The renegado -- Webster's The devil's law-case, the limits of tragicomic redemption, and tragicomedy's afterlife.…”
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Monuments and literary posterity in early modern drama / by Chalk, Brian

Table of Contents: “…"Mocking life": preemptive commemoration in The Winter's Tale -- 5. Fletcher's future: dynasty and collaborative posterity in Henry VIII -- Coda: what they hath left us -- Select bibliography -- Index.…”

Dangerous familiars : representations of domestic crime in England, 1550-1700 / by Dolan, Frances E. 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Finding What Has Been ""Lost"": Representations of lnfanticide and The Winter's Tale; V. Witchcraft and the Threat of the Familiar; Epilogue; Index.…”
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Theatre and testimony in Shakespeare's England : a culture of mediation / by Syme, Holger Schott

Table of Contents: “…The reporter's presence: narrative as theatre in The Winter's Tale -- Epilogue: the theatre of the twice-told tale -- Select bibliography.…”
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Legal reform in English Renaissance literature / by Strain, Virginia Lee

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; 1 'Perpetuall Reformation' in Spenser's Faerie Queene 'Perpetuall Reformation' in Book V of Spenser's Faerie Queene; Part I Perfection; 2 Snaring Statutes and the General Pardon in the Gesta Grayorum; 3 Legal Excess in John Donne's 'Satyre V'; Part II Execution; 4 The Assize Circuitry of Measure for Measure; 5 The Winter's Tale and the Oracle of the Law; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Secret Shakespeare : studies in theatre, religion and resistance / by Wilson, Richard, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Wrapped in a player's hide : Shakespeare's secret history -- Ghostly fathers : Shakeshafte and the Jesuits -- Secrets as a dumb man : two comedies of Italy and the genesis of secrecy -- No news but the old news : Shakespeare and the tragedy of Arden -- A bloody question : the politics of Venus and Adonis -- Love in idleness : the stripping of the altars in A midsummer night's dream -- Dyed in mummy : Othello and the mulberries -- The pilot's thumb : Macbeth and the martyrs -- Voyage to Tunis : new history and the old world of The tempest -- Unseasonable laughter : the context of Cardenio -- The statue of our queen : Shakespeare's open secret -- A winter's tale : King Lear in the Pennines.…”
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The art of law in Shakespeare / by Raffield, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Treason and the King's Two Bodies -- 3. The Winter's Tale: An Art Lawful as Eating -- I. Law, Literature and Genealogy -- II. …”
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Shakespeare's theory of drama / by Kiernan, Pauline

Table of Contents: “…The Rape of Lucrece, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest -- 5. 'O'er-wrested seeming': dramatic illusion and the repudiation of mimesis. …”
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Shakespeare and early modern religion /

Table of Contents: “…: the Godless world of King Lear / David Loewenstein ; "Another Golgotha" / Ewan Fernie ; Shakespeare and wisdom literature / Michael Witmore ; Awakening faith in The Winter's Tale / Richard McCoy ; Hamlet, Henry VIII, and the question of religion : a post-secular perspective / Paul Stevens ; Converting Henry : truth, history, and historical faith in Henry VIII / Michael Davies ; Shakespeare's non-Christian religions / Matthew Dimmock -- Afterword / Brian Cummings.…”
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The media players : Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the idea of news / by Wittek, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Early Modern Drama and the Idea of News; Theater and News Culture: A Brief History ; The Idea of News ; The Proto-Public Sphere ; Public Making and Printed News ; 2. The Winter's Tale, News, Truth, and Belief; Shakespeare and News; Autolycus, Broadsheets, and Mercury; The Meaning of a Balladeer on a London Stage in 1610; Ballads, Pamphlets, Monstrous Births, and Singing Fish; Shakespeare and the Problem of Belief; ""Times News" and New Forms of Knowledge ; 3. …”
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