Plot Flashcards
Act 1,scene1
Archidamus and camillo conversing abot leaontes and polixenes strong and long friendship.
expo
Act1,scene2
-leontes suspects his wife and polixenes of auldultery
-leontes orders camillo to murder polixenes
-camillo aids polixenes and they escape to Bohemia
expo
rising action
Act2,scene1
-leaontes accuses hermoine of adultery and imprisons her
Act2,scene2
in prison hermoine gives birth to a baby girl
Act2,scene3
paulina shows the babay to leontes, he rejects the baby
Act3,scene1
-shortest scene with Cleomenes and dion who have gone to the oracle
Act3,scene2
appolos oracle names hermoine innocent and blames leontes
Act3,scene3
antigonus abandons baby Perdita by leontes commands
Act4,scene1
time scene
Ac4,scene2
polixenes and camillo who decide to disquize their identity to watch florizel and Perdita interact
Act4,scene3
clown and autolycus scene
Act4,scene4
polixenes forbids his son to marry the shepherd daughter -longest scene
- camillo helps the couple escape to sicilia(climax)
- autolycus is hired to explain perditas heritage (part of the falling action)
Act5,scene1
in sicilia,leontes,ow penitent, meets the couple
Act5,scene2
perdita is recognised as the lost sicilian princess
Act5,scene3
statue of hermoine miraculously comes to life (denuement) -three unions onstage p-f c-p l-h