A comic version of Autolycus appears in William Shakespeare’s play The Winter’s Tale. Like his namesake he is a thief and swindler—a self-described “snapper up of unconsidered trifles.” He is pivotal to the concluding events of the play, in which the shepherd girl Perdita is revealed to be of royal birth.
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