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The Commodore

The secret man of the world

Joshua Corey
Dec 14, 2022
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1980. Museum of the City of New York. 80.142.2.
1980 photo of a New York production of The Winter’s Tale

This semester I concluded my Shakespeare survey with The Winter’s Tale, one of the strangest and most marvelous plays in the canon. If you’re not familiar with the story, it concerns a Sicilian king, Leontes, who becomes suddenly and inexplicably convinced that his virtuous and pregnant queen, Herm…

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