ABSTRACT
I do not offer an alternative reading of The Winter’s Tale as such, if by that we mean that my assessment differs radically from much of what has already been written about the play’s concern with death and time. I offer instead an alternative sense of the place of such readings, a different way of arriving at what may seem similar or related
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“form” has not yet been sufficiently attended to.1 I hope to show a deep and abiding-I am tempted to say integral-connection between the language of Renaissance arithmetic and the (at first glance) unmathematical world of Shakespearean romance.2
