| List of illustrations | page ix |
| Acknowledgements | xii |
| List of abbreviations and conventions | xv |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Genre and title | 2 |
| Romance, tragicomedy, tragicomic romance | 3 |
| Pastoral | 10 |
| History | 20 |
| Iterative patterns: sameness with a difference | 22 |
| Leontes’ jealousy in criticism and performance | 24 |
| ‘Exit pursued by a bear’ | 30 |
| The figure of Time | 34 |
| Act 5 and the triumphs of Time | 40 |
| ‘Sir, you have done enough’: how changed is Leontes? | 41 |
| Hermione’s resurrection: real or feigned? | 47 |
| Hermione: ‘O, she’s warm!’ | 49 |
| Patriarchy: restored and reformed | 56 |
| The Winter’s Tale’s sense of an ending: happiness qualified | 59 |
| Date | 62 |
| Revision theory | 63 |
| Sources | 66 |
| Robert Greene’s Pandosto | 66 |
| Ovid’s Metamorphoses | 70 |
| Textual note | 73 |
| List of characters | 79 |
| THE PLAY | 83 |
| Supplementary notes | 251 |
| Textual analysis | 256 |
| Appendices: | |
| A. Simon Forman’s notes on The Winter’s Tale | 262 |
| B. Some doubling possibilities in The Winter’s Tale | 263 |
| C. The Winter’s Tale in performance: selected issues, scenes, and passages | 270 |
| D. The Winter’s Tale: A select performance chronology | 275 |
| Reading list | 277 |