The Winter's Tale Flashcards
Camillo and Archidamus on the Kings
‘Rooted between them such an affection which cannot but branch now’ / ‘the heavens continue their love’
Arhcidamus ironic foreshadowing
‘I think there is not in the world either malice or matter to alter it’
Length of time Polixenes has stayed in Sicilia
‘9 changes of the watery star’
Sexualises hand-holding
‘paddling palms and pinching fingers’
Flirting from Hermione to Polixenes
‘My prisoner? Or my guest? By your dread verily one of them you shall be’
Cuckolding
‘My bosom likes not, nor my brows’ / ‘hardening of my brows’
Fishing imagery
‘I am angling now’/ ‘I give line’/ ‘the neb, the bill’
Breaking the fourth wall
‘his pond fish’d by his next neighbour’
Hermione referencing the wedding vows
‘then thou did utter, ‘I am yours forever’
Leontes’ nothing speech
‘Bohemia’s nothing; my wife’s nothing; not nothing have these nothings, if this be nothing’
Mamillius about Winter
‘a sad tale’s best for Winter’
Leontes poisoned mind
‘There may be in the cup a spider, a spider steeped, I have drunk and seen the spider’
Leontes’ verdict on Hermione
‘I have said she is an adulteress, I have said with whom’
Hermione appealing to a higher divine plan
‘The action I now go on is for my better grace’
Leontes to Paulina
‘Canst not rule her?’
Leontes Insomnia
‘No day, no night, nor rest!’
Exposing Perdita to fate
‘where chance may nurse or end it’
Hermione’s calm plea to the Oracle
‘If powers divine, behold our human actions, as they do, I doubt not then but innocence shall make false accusation blush, and tyranny tremble at patience’
The verdict of The Oracle
‘Hermione is chaste; Polixenes blameless; Camilio a true subject; Leontes a jealous tyrant’
Leontes’ dismissal of The Oracle
‘There is no truth at all i’ th’ oracle. The sessions shall proceed; this is mere falsehood’
Leontes deep atonement
‘Once a day I’ll visit the chapel where they lie, and tears shed there shall be my recreation’
Winter gives way to spring
‘then comes in the sweet o’the year, for the red blood reigns in the winter’s pale’
Perdita’s clothes are not fit for Florizel
‘Your high self, the gracious mark o’ th’ land, you have obscured with a swain’s wearing, and me, poor lowly maid’
Florizel’s speech of renewal
‘These your unusual weeds to each part of you do give a life; no shepherdess, but flora, peering in April’s front’
The wrongdoings and lies of Autolycus bringing about a happy ending
‘Ha, ha, what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman!’
Leontes admits his wrongs
‘Your mother was most true to wedlock’
Perdita is recognised
‘His dignity and duty both cast of, fled from his father, from his tropes, and with a shepherd’s daughter’
Paulina acts a priest role
‘It is required you do awake your faith’
Final remembrance of wrongs in the happy ending
‘She hangs about his neck’ / Why is that wears her like a medal, hanging about his neck, Bohemia’
