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Introduction: Genre and title; Iterative patterns: sameness with adifference; Leontes' jealousy in criticism and performance; 'Exit pursued bya bear'; The figure of Time; Act 5 and the triumphs of Time; The Winter'sTale's sense of an ending: happiness qualified; Date; Sources; Note on thetext; List of characters; THE PLAY; Supplementary notes; Textual analysis;Appendices: A. Simon Forman's notes on The Winter's Tale; B. Some doublingpossibilities in The Winter's Tale; C. The Winter's Tale in performance:selected issues, scenes, and passages; D. The Winter's Tale: a selectperformance chronology; Reading list.