The Winter's Tale

Question 1

Camillo and Archidamus on the Kings

Answer 1

‘Rooted between them such an affection which cannot but branch now’ / ‘the heavens continue their love’

Question 2

Arhcidamus ironic foreshadowing

Answer 2

‘I think there is not in the world either malice or matter to alter it’

Question 3

Length of time Polixenes has stayed in Sicilia

Answer 3

‘9 changes of the watery star’

Question 4

Sexualises hand-holding

Answer 4

‘paddling palms and pinching fingers’

Question 5

Flirting from Hermione to Polixenes

Answer 5

‘My prisoner? Or my guest? By your dread verily one of them you shall be’

Question 6

Cuckolding

Answer 6

‘My bosom likes not, nor my brows’ / ‘hardening of my brows’

Question 7

Fishing imagery

Answer 7

‘I am angling now’/ ‘I give line’/ ‘the neb, the bill’

Question 8

Breaking the fourth wall

Answer 8

‘his pond fish’d by his next neighbour’

Question 9

Hermione referencing the wedding vows

Answer 9

‘then thou did utter, ‘I am yours forever’

Question 10

Leontes’ nothing speech

Answer 10

‘Bohemia’s nothing; my wife’s nothing; not nothing have these nothings, if this be nothing’

Question 11

Mamillius about Winter

Answer 11

‘a sad tale’s best for Winter’

Question 12

Leontes poisoned mind

Answer 12

‘There may be in the cup a spider, a spider steeped, I have drunk and seen the spider’

Question 13

Leontes’ verdict on Hermione

Answer 13

‘I have said she is an adulteress, I have said with whom’

Question 14

Hermione appealing to a higher divine plan

Answer 14

‘The action I now go on is for my better grace’

Question 15

Leontes to Paulina

Answer 15

‘Canst not rule her?’

Question 16

Leontes Insomnia

Answer 16

‘No day, no night, nor rest!’

Question 17

Exposing Perdita to fate

Answer 17

‘where chance may nurse or end it’

Question 18

Hermione’s calm plea to the Oracle

Answer 18

‘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’

Question 19

The verdict of The Oracle

Answer 19

‘Hermione is chaste; Polixenes blameless; Camilio a true subject; Leontes a jealous tyrant’

Question 20

Leontes’ dismissal of The Oracle

Answer 20

‘There is no truth at all i’ th’ oracle. The sessions shall proceed; this is mere falsehood’

Question 21

Leontes deep atonement

Answer 21

‘Once a day I’ll visit the chapel where they lie, and tears shed there shall be my recreation’

Question 22

Winter gives way to spring

Answer 22

‘then comes in the sweet o’the year, for the red blood reigns in the winter’s pale’

Question 23

Perdita’s clothes are not fit for Florizel

Answer 23

‘Your high self, the gracious mark o’ th’ land, you have obscured with a swain’s wearing, and me, poor lowly maid’

Question 24

Florizel’s speech of renewal

Answer 24

‘These your unusual weeds to each part of you do give a life; no shepherdess, but flora, peering in April’s front’

Question 25

The wrongdoings and lies of Autolycus bringing about a happy ending

Answer 25

‘Ha, ha, what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman!’

Question 26

Leontes admits his wrongs

Answer 26

‘Your mother was most true to wedlock’

Question 27

Perdita is recognised

Answer 27

‘His dignity and duty both cast of, fled from his father, from his tropes, and with a shepherd’s daughter’

Question 28

Paulina acts a priest role

Answer 28

‘It is required you do awake your faith’

Question 29

Final remembrance of wrongs in the happy ending

Answer 29

‘She hangs about his neck’ / Why is that wears her like a medal, hanging about his neck, Bohemia’