SOURCE: "Ambition and Original Sin in The Winter's Tale," in Shakespeare and the Hazards of Ambition, Harvard University Press, 1984, pp. 222-79.
In the excerpt below, Watson discusses the physical and spiritual reunification of the natural and artificial worlds of The Winter's Tale; including Perdita's rejection of the dead world of Sicily and her role in the redemption of Leontes' ambitious identity.
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