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Wonder, which was always at the heart of romance, came under attack in the first decades of the seventeenth century, and the nature of imaginative fiction changed. Yet, Don Quixote (the two parts of which were printed in 1605 and 1615) shows that the wonder was not eliminated under the pressures of fact in the fictions of the early seventeenth century; it simply resurfaced in other forms. Two texts roughly contemporaneous with Don Quixote’s appearance in England illustrate the nature of that metamorphosis: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and the manuscript continuation of Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania. This chapter examines the self-conscious use of the implausible and the improbable that both texts display, and argues that the wrinkles and flaws that Shakespeare and Wroth insist on displaying in their texts are integral to the metamorphosis of wonder itself.
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