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Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. The super-long act 4, scene 4 continues, with equal parts romance and duplicity. The usual for Shakespeare. After spending all this time with Autolycus, the shepherd’s son, and Mopsa, the scene now shifts back over … Continue reading →

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! As Act 4, scene 4 continues, it’s more talk of music and songs, but it there something more to it? Picking up from where we left off, there’s more tomfoolery between the shepherd’s son (or … Continue reading →

Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! Time for some comedy (naughty comedy!) as more characters join the already-stuffed act 4 scene 4. The attention shifts to the shepherd’s son (or the clown, as he’s called in the Pelican and Oxford editions) … Continue reading →

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! The epic act 4 scene 4 continues on with more romantic poetry, but also a little darkness underneath. Where were we? It’s springtime in Bohemia, and Polixenes the king, in disguise as a farmer, gets … Continue reading →

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! As the epic act 4 scene 4 continues, Perdita continues to show us what she’s made of.   We just got to know young lovers Perdita and Florizell, and now they’re joined on stage by … Continue reading →

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! It’s taken us a while to get here, but act 4 scene 4 has a lot of what people love about this play. Lots of folks will summarize The Winter’s Tale by saying the first … Continue reading →

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! In act 4 scene 3, we meet… the king of thieves! The previous scene established that we’re in Bohemia know, caught us up on some characters, and set up some plot. And now Autolycus struts … Continue reading →

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! It’s a whole new play in a new locale for act 4 scene 2. Welcome to Bohemia! This scene begins with Polixenes, the king of Bohemia, and Camillo, a former Sicilian lord. Polixenes says he … Continue reading →

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! This play is of note among Shakespeare’s canon because of how different it is. Case in point is act 4 scene 1, in which Father Time suddenly walks onto the stage. This scene is simple … Continue reading →

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! Now that the business with the bear is over, act 3 scene 3 concludes as we find ourselves in a whole new play with new characters. Antigonus has left the baby Perdita alone in the … Continue reading →