SOURCE: Lim, Walter S. H. “Knowledge and Belief in The Winter's Tale.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 41, no. 2 (spring 2001): 317-34.
In the following essay, Lim studies the way in which elements of The Winter's Tale, particularly the animation of Hermione's statue at the play's end, represent the conflict between Reformation and Catholic thought in Shakespeare's England.
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