Pandosto

work by Greene

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discussed in biography

  • In Robert Greene

    …best of his pastorals is Pandosto (1588), the direct source of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.

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influence on Shakespeare

  • Costume design for a shepherdess by Guy-Pierre Fauconnet for a 1920 Paris production of The Winter's Tale.
    In The Winter’s Tale

    …work of prose fiction called Pandosto (1588) by Robert Greene. The play opens with Leontes, the king of Sicilia, entertaining his old friend Polixenes, the king of Bohemia. Leontes jealously mistakes the courtesy between his wife, Hermione, and Polixenes as a sign of Hermione’s adultery with him. In a fit…

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