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Introduction I. - From source to performance: determining genre and expectations An arch-rival plagiarized? Dramatizing Greene's Pandosto Shakespeare and anti-Aristotelian theater, or the generic impasse From page to stage: unsettling expectations, trusting performance II. - Context and reception. Is there a context to this play? The Winter's Tale and the Jacobean Context Post-Jacobean reception III. - Temporis filia veritas An ill-timed play? 'The time is worth the use on't': The Chorus and the Oracle From syncretism to didacticism IV. - Poisoning knowledge Ignorance, sin and self-knowledge The parable of the spider V. - Diversion and recreation Diversion I: Antigonus' dream and 'Exit, pursued by a Bear' Diversion II: The mercurial Thief Diversion III: Music, Dances and Satyrs Statuesque recreation (diversion IV) Conclusion. - A comedy of loss, redemption and remarriage? Select bibliography

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