The Winter's Tale - World play was written and received (2)

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  • Many of the characters in Shakespeare’s play have direct parallels in Pandosto and many of the major dramatic incidents are similar, but the ending is extremely different (see Forgiveness and Reconciliation section in AO1).
  • Shakespeare’s only son had died some years before; he had two daughters and, as of 1608, a granddaughter. It is short-sighted to attempt to impose patterns from the little we know of Shakespeare’s life onto his works as a kind of narrative insight – much of his working life took place apart from his family, who resided away from the city, and the wide-ranging scope of his work discourages us from putting too much credence in the idea of his wife and children as…

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