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Comedy? Late romance? Problem play? However one classifies it, "The Winter's Tale" is filled with comedy and intense psychological drama.
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Characters edit
- Leontes: King of Sicilia, and in many ways the antagonist of the play
- Hermione: The virtuous and beautiful Queen of Sicilia.
- Perdita: Daughter to Leontes and Hermione, and eventually Princess of Sicilia. Unaware of her royal lineage.
- Polixenes: King of Bohemia, and childhood friend of Leontes
- Florizel: Polixenes's only son and heir
- Camillo: A Sicilian nobleman.
- Paulina: A noblewoman of Sicilia.
- Autolycus: A peddler.
- Shepherd: Raises Perdita.
- Antigonus: Paulina's husband.
- Clown: Perdita's adopted brother
- Mamillius: Son of Leontes and Hermione.
- Cleomenes: A lord of Sicilia.
- Dion: A lord of Sicilia.
- Emilia: A lady-in-waiting to Hermione.
- Archidamus: A lord of Bohemia.
- Mopsa: A shepherdess.
- Dorcas: A shepherdess
- A Bear: Add a description of this character.
Quotes edit
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“It is requir'dYou do awake your faith.”
Paulina -
“Exit, pursued by a bear”
stage direction
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'Hermione is chaste; Polixenes blameless; Camillo a true subject; Leontes a jealous tyrant; his innocent babe truly begotten; and the king shall live without an heir, if that which is lost be not found.'
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First Sentence edit
ARCHIDAMUS If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Shakespeare's Comedies. (community list)
This book is in Folger Shakespeare Library. (edition-based publisher list)
This book is in LMU Anglistik Syllabus. (authoritative list)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Stationers Company
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 1623
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 66
Publisher: Stationers Company
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 1623
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 66
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 822.33
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Drama › Playwrights, A-Z › ( S ) › Shakespeare, William
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( S ) › Shakespeare, William
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British › Shakespeare
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Drama › British & Irish
- Books › Arts & Photography › Performing Arts › Theater
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