What is the purpose of autolycus in the winter’s tale?
Score: 4.4/5 (72 votes) His purpose is to make people laugh by his clever machinations and songs. When the simpleton son of the shepherd-clown is going to the market to collect things for the sheep-shearing feast, he finds a person lying on the road (Act IV. Scene iii).What is the role of Autolycus ...