SOURCE: Hartwig, Joan. “The Tragicomic Perspective of The Winter's Tale.” ELH 37, no. 1 (March 1970): 12-36.
In the following essay, Hartwig proposes that in The Winter's Tale Shakespeare used a miraculous resolution to create a sense of dislocation and wonder in his audience, using Leontes's penitence and eventual recovery of Hermione as a way to stress the benevolence of the power that controls universe.
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