"Bearing hence" Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.(William Shakespeare)(Critical Essay)

From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Hunt, Maurice | Copyright information

Hitherto unexplored wordplay in the early acts of The Winter's Tale involving forms of the word "bear" deepens our understanding of the importance for the play's design of a bear's notorious onstage pursuit and reported devouring of Antigonus. On the one hand, the wordplay confirms in a new way previous commentators' assertions that the bear symbolizes Leontes' savage authority over Antigonus and the king's responsibility for the courtier's death. On the other, it suggests that Cam...

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