The Winter's Tale Flashcards

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Significance opening sentence

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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.

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Pol + Leo childhood quotes

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“twinned lambs that did frisk I’ the sun”
“rooted” “mature dignities and royal necessities made separation of their society”

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Pol + Leo love quotes

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“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”

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Leo salacious soliloquy

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“sluiced in’s absence”
“bad and baggage”

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Mam death quote

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“straight declined, droop’d”

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trial scene quotes

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“innocent milk in its most innocent mouth”

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oracle quote

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“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”

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statue scene quote

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“Does not the stone rebuke me for being more stone than it?”
“Our Perdita is found”
“O, she is warm”

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Trial scene

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Act 3 Scene 2

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Leo, Herm and Pol

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Act 1 Scene 2

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