Winters Tale.

Notes

Leontes:
King Leontes' destruction of his happiness when Leontes
confuses his jealous imagination with reality.
Difference between Leontes and Polixenes: Unlike Leontes,
Polixenes seeks advice at the time that he seeks facts.
Unlike Othello, Leontes convinces himself of his wifes
affair all on his own theres no Iago figure whispering in
his ear and goading him along. (If anything, Leontes is his own
Iago.
He becomes possessed by his fantastic imagination.
Spontaneous jealousy.

Perdita:

Autolycus:

1.1
Confusing reality with illusion: reality: "We cannot with such
magnificence in so rare I know not what to say." Then, he
envisions a means to avoid the reality: "We will give you sleepy
drinks, that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may,
though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us."

3.3.103-123
Comedy and tragedy.
The two faces of nature.