“This seal'd-up Oracle”: Ambivalent Nostalgia in The Winter's Tale

‘In the keeping of Paulina’

“…42 Lowell Gallagher, meanwhile, notes that Paulina is presented as the 'owner' of the statue, and concludes that this means that the image has 'multiple owners', since he takes Giulio Romano to also have 'possession' of Hermione. 43 Gallagher therefore considers Paulina to be a 'covert, collaborative author' of the statue along with Romano. 44 This is an odd conclusion given that Romano is much more 'covert' than Paulina in the play in performance, never even appearing onstage.…”