Playlist Winter’s Tale | Dramatis Personea | Sitemap Scenes
The “tale” of The Winter’s Tale unfolds in scenes set sixteen years apart. In the first part of the play, Leontes, king of Sicilia, plays host to his friend Polixenes, king of Bohemia. Suddenly, Leontes becomes unreasonably jealous of Polixenes and Leontes’s pregnant wife, Hermione. Leontes calls for Polixenes to be killed, but he escapes. … more …
Charles Robert Leslie, Autolycus (1836) – Oil on canvas
Playlist Winter’s Tale | Dramatis Personea | Sitemap Scenes