SOURCE: Hunt, Maurice. “‘Bearing Hence’ Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 44, no. 2 (spring 2004): 333-46.
In the following essay, Hunt examines Shakespeare's use of the term “bear” in The Winter's Tale, associating it with such themes as tyranny, suffering, redemption, and sexual domination.
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