The Winter’s Tale bronze monument is permanently placed in Shakespeare’s Great Garden at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, U. K. The Winter’s Tale is a miraculous play: one symbolic element of this sculptural composition is the representation in sculpture of the moment that a stone statue of the dead Queen Hermione comes to life. This monument, like each of the 9 monuments that are placed at the Trust, features an excerpt from the play cast in raised bronze lettering on the reverse side. This monument includes the lines: “'Tis time; descend; be stone no more; approach;/Strike all that look upon with marvel.” In this scene, the stone figure comes to life with motion; this sculptural composition recognizes the living movement that is inherent to the bronze casting process. The reverse side lettering is surrounded by tree-like forms, that echo, on one hand, natural forms, and on the other, the foundry-molding “gating” structure that is used in bronze casting to guide the approx. 2100°F molten bronze. In an conversation in the Great Garden between Greg Wyatt, Dr. Paul Edmundson, and Sir Professor Stanley Wells, recorded in a video collection from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Greg remarks that this is, “The tree, the regenerative tree embracing and penetrating and surrounding the transformative moment--not of stone but of the casting of the bronze. And that’s my idiom here, that’s the medium as message, if you will, the delivery of life into art.” These works are not one-for-one depictions of Shakespeare’s images, but inventive artistic interpretations of his themes.