Pt. 1. William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale / David Bevington -- Pt. 2. Cultural Contexts -- 1.
... Romance and Tragicomedy -- The Defense of Poesy / Philip Sidney -- The Faithful Shepherdess / John Fletcher -- Pandosto. The Triumph of Time / Robert Greene -- Metamorphoses / Ovid -- 2. Gender, Sexuality, and the Family -- Gender Division in Childbirth and Childhood -- Of Domestical Duties / William Gouge -- The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First / John Nichols -- Issues of the Exchequer / Frederick Devon -- Childbirth; Or, the Happy Delivery of Women with The Nursing of Children / Jacques Guillemeau -- Conjugal Faultlines -- Paradise Lost / John Milton -- The Blazon of Jealousy / Benedetto Varchi -- The Country Justice / Michael Dalton -- A Complete Collection of State Trials / Thomas Bayly Howell -- Death of Children -- Funeral Elegies upon the Most Lamentable and Untimely Death of the Thrice Illustrious Prince Henry, Prince of Wales / Robert Allyne -- The True Picture and Relation of Prince Henry His Noble and Virtuous Disposition / William Haydon -- On My First Daughter and On My First Son / Ben Jonson -- 3. Authority and Resistance -- Monarch and Ministers -- The True Law of Free Monarchies / James I. -- Of Counsel / Francis Bacon -- De Jure Regni apud Scotos / George Buchanan -- Women's Speech: Attacks and Defenses -- A Bride-Bush: Or, A Direction for Married Persons / William Whately -- The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women / Joseph Swetnam -- A Muzzle for Melastomus, the Cynical Baiter of, and Foul-Mouthed Barker against, Eva's Sex / Rachel Speght -- A Merry Dialogue Betwixt a Married Man and His Wife, Concerning the Affairs of This Careful Life / Martin Parker -- 4. Encountering Nature -- Pursued by a Bear -- Of the Bear / Edward Topsell -- The True and Perfect Description of Three Voyages / Gerrit de Veer -- Pastoral Preoccupations -- The Art of English Poesy / George Puttenham -- Fitzherbert's Book of Husbandry / John Fitzherbert -- The Ninth Eclogue / Michael Drayton -- The Anatomy of Abuses / Philip Stubbes -- Rogues and Peddlers -- An Act for Punishment of Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars -- A Proclamation Inhibiting All Persons after Bartholomew-tide Next, to Use the Trade of a Peddler or a Petty Chapman -- The Second and Last Part of Cony-Catching and The Third and Last Part of Cony-Catching / Robert Greene -- The Description of a Rare or Rather Most Monstrous Fish Taken on the East Coast of Holland -- 5. Hermione's Statue -- Repentance, Devotion, and the Miraculous -- An Homily of Repentance -- The Widow's Mite / A. G. -- The Jesuits' Gospel / William Crashaw -- Death and Desecration -- The Discovery of Witchcraft / Reginald Scot -- The Second Maiden's Tragedy / Thomas Middleton -- Eroticizing the Statue -- Metamorphoses / Ovid -- Artists, Patrons, and Collectors -- Of Antiquities / Henry Peacham -- Performing the Statue -- Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble / James Boaden -- Life of Mrs. Siddons / Thomas Campbell -- Granville Barker's Production of The Winter's Tale / Brian Pearce -- Preface to The Winter's Tale / Harley Granville-Barker -- The Winter's Tale in Performance in England and America, 1611-1976 / Dennis Bartholomeusz -- An Account of Edward Hall's Watermill Theatre Production by Propeller / Mario DiGangi Read More