The Winter's Tale - Religious Imagery

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  • Religious Imagery – we see the full extent of the new, sadder, chastened Leontes in his speech at V.1.167 – it brims with references to gods, heaven, sin and things that are blessed and sacred.
  • Elsewhere the play alludes to Original sin, Whitsun pastorals, grace, wives as ‘devils’, the practice of burning heretics, Judas Iscariot, ‘saint-like sorrow’ and other Christian imagery –

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