The Winter's Tale Flashcards
Significance opening sentence
With its genre-defying form, Shakespeare’s ‘The Winter’s Tale’ is labelled a problem play, after being categorised as a comedy in the First Folio, with its tragic first half occurring in courtly Sicilia and more comedic second half set in bucolic Bohemia.
Pol + Leo childhood quotes
“twinned lambs that did frisk I’ the sun”
“rooted” “mature dignities and royal necessities made separation of their society”
Pol + Leo love quotes
“temptations have since then been born to’s”
“three crabbed months that soured themselves to death”
“Too hot, too hot!”
“paddling palms and pinching fingers”
Leo salacious soliloquy
“sluiced in’s absence”
“bad and baggage”
Mam death quote
“straight declined, droop’d”
trial scene quotes
“innocent milk in its most innocent mouth”
oracle quote
“Hermione is chaste; Politeness blameless; Camilla 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”
statue scene quote
“Does not the stone rebuke me for being more stone than it?”
“Our Perdita is found”
“O, she is warm”
Trial scene
Act 3 Scene 2
Leo, Herm and Pol
Act 1 Scene 2
