THE WINTER'S TALE. Sidney Lee

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      William Shakespeare, Sidney Lee

      THE WINTER'S TALE

      Including The Life of William Shakespeare

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      ISBN 978-80-272-3168-3

Table of Contents

       The Winter's Tale

       Dramatis Personae

       ACT I.

       ACT II.

       ACT III.

       ACT IV.

       ACT V.

       The Life of William Shakespeare

       PREFACE

       I—PARENTAGE AND BIRTH

       II—CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION, AND MARRIAGE

       III—THE FAREWELL TO STRATFORD

       IV—ON THE LONDON STAGE

       V.—EARLY DRAMATIC EFFORTS

       VI—THE FIRST APPEAL TO THE READING PUBLIC

       VII—THE SONNETS AND THEIR LITERARY HISTORY

       VIII—THE BORROWED CONCEITS OF THE SONNETS

       IX—THE PATRONAGE OF THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON

       X—THE SUPPOSED STORY OF INTRIGUE IN THE SONNETS

       XI—THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMATIC POWER

       XII—THE PRACTICAL AFFAIRS OF LIFE

       XIII—MATURITY OF GENIUS

       XIV—THE HIGHEST THEMES OF TRAGEDY

       XV—THE LATEST PLAYS

       XVI—THE CLOSE OF LIFE

       XVII—SURVIVORS AND DESCENDANTS

       XVIII—AUTOGRAPHS, PORTRAITS, AND MEMORIALS

       XIX—BIBLIOGRAPHY

       XX—POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION

       XXI—GENERAL ESTIMATE

       APPENDIX

      The Winter's Tale

      Dramatis Personae

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       LEONTES, King of Sicilia

       MAMILLIUS, his son

       CAMILLO, Sicilian Lord

       ANTIGONUS, Sicilian Lord

       CLEOMENES, Sicilian Lord

       DION, Sicilian Lord

       POLIXENES, King of Bohemia

       FLORIZEL, his son

       ARCHIDAMUS, a Bohemian Lord

       An Old Shepherd, reputed father of Perdita

       CLOWN, his son

       AUTOLYCUS, a rogue

       A Mariner

       Gaoler

       Servant to the Old Shepherd

       Other Sicilian Lords

       Sicilian Gentlemen

       Officers of a Court of Judicature

       HERMIONE, Queen to Leontes

       PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and Hermione

       PAULINA, wife to Antigonus

       EMILIA, a lady attending on the Queen

       MOPSA, shepherdess

       DORCAS, shepherdess

       Other Ladies, attending on the Queen

       Lords, Ladies, and Attendants; Satyrs

       for a Dance; Shepherds,

       Shepherdesses, Guards, &c.

       TIME, as Chorus

       Scene:

       Sometimes in Sicilia; sometimes in Bohemia.

ACT I.

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      SCENE I. Sicilia. An Antechamber in LEONTES’ Palace.

       [Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS]

       ARCHIDAMUS

       If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your