SOURCE: Van Elk, Martine. “‘Our praises are our wages’: Courtly Exchange, Social Mobility, and Female Speech in The Winter's Tale.” Philological Quarterly 79, no. 4 (fall 2000): 429-57.
In the following essay, Van Elk views The Winter's Tale as an example of the “complicated, reciprocal relationship between gender and class” in the Jacobean period.
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