1. The WINTER’S TALE
By M.Arif Ramadhani
English Education English and Letters Faculty
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2. William Shakespeare
Born: April 26, 1564, Stratford-uponAvon, United Kingdom
Died: April 23, 1616, Stratford-uponAvon, United Kingdom
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3. Background
William Shakespeare's Main Source
Played in 1611 this drama found its way into print in the first Folio of 1623. The
Principal source is Robert Greene’s Pandosto, The Triumph of Timer (1588). There are also
some minor sources
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4. Full title
:The Winter’s Tale
author
: Richard Greene
Type of work
: Play
Genre
:Tragedy and comedy
Language
: English
Time
: print in the first Folio of 1623
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5. Polixenes, King of Bohemia, has been on a ninemonth visit to the court of his childhood friend
Leontes, King of Sicilia, and his wife, Queen
Hermione.
Groundlessly, Leontes becomes convinced that his
heavily pregnant wife has been having an affair
with Polixenes.
He tries to persuade his most trusted courtier,
Camillo, to poison Polixenes.
Convinced of the queen's innocence, Camillo
warns Polixenes and they depart for Bohemia
together.
Lost Children
Another courtier, Antigonus, is ordered to leave Hermione's newly born
daughter on a desert shore.
Leontes tries Hermione for treason; when he denies the truth of the god
Apollo's oracular declaration of her innocence, his son Mamillius dies. He is
then told that the queen has also died.
Antigonus leaves the baby girl on the coast of Bohemia, where he is torn to
pieces by a bear. An old shepherd and his clownish son find the baby, bring
her up as a member of their family and name her Perdita.
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6. Sixteen years later
Perdita is being courted by Polixenes' son, Prince Florizel, who has disguised
himself as a shepherd, Doricles.
The roguish pedlar Autolycus tricks the shepherds out of money. Polixenes and
Camillo come in disguise to the countryside; when the king denounces his son for
courting a low-born shepherdess, Florizel and Perdita flee to Sicilia, with the
assistance of Camillo.
The truth comes out
The shepherd and clown follow, bringing tokens that reveal Perdita's true identity.
That which was lost having been found, Paulina, the lady most loyal to Hermione,
reveals a statue of the dead queen and tells the assembled company to prepare
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7. Character
Sicilia Kingdom
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Bohemia Kingdom
 Leontes – The King of Sicily, and
the childhood friend of the
Bohemian King Polixenes.
 Hermione – The virtuous and
beautiful Queen of Sicily.
 Camillo – An honest Sicilian
nobleman.
 Paulina – A noblewoman of
Sicily.
 Antigonus – Paulina's husband,
and also a loyal friend of
Hermione..
 Mamillius – The young prince of
Sicily, Leontes and Hermione's
son.
 Polixenes – The King of Bohemia,
and Leontes's boyhood friend.
 Florizel – Polixenes's only son and
heir.
 Perdita – The daughter of Leontes
and Hermione, unaware of her
royal lineage.
 Shepherd – An old and honorable
sheep-tender.
 Clown – or Young Shepherd, the
Old Shepherd's buffoonish son,
and Perdita's adopted brother.
 Autolycus – A roguish peddler,
vagabond, and pickpocket.
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8. Character Names
Perdita by Anthony
Frederick Augustus
Sandys
 The name Perdita means “that which is lost,” which is
fitting given that Perdita is abandoned in the desert and
lost to her biological family for sixteen years.
 Florizel’s name is associated with the flowers of
springtime, aligning the prince with romance and
renewal, which is exactly what Florizel’s budding
relationship with Perdita promises.
 Leontes’s name is suggestive of his lion-like nature – he’s
aggressive, angry, and wildly jealous in the first half of
the play. (Although, we should point out that Leontes
turns into a pussy cat after he repents for his bad
behavior.)
The Settings for The Drama
The settings for The Winter's Tale are Sicily and
Bohemia
The Winter’s Tale Theme of Jealousy
The first three acts of The Winter’s Tale are a study of jealousy .
In the play, Leontes’s sudden and unfounded fear that his
pregnant wife is sleeping withUniversity offriend eats away at him
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9. Conflict
Leontes becomes crazy jealous.
Out of the blue, Leontes suspects that Hermione is hooking up with Polixenes
and carrying the Bohemian King’s love child. He plots to have Polixenes
poisoned.
Climax
Mammilius dies, Perdita is abandoned, and we’re told Hermione is dead too.
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Leontes orders someone to make the little East Java
'Ulum Jombang “bastard” disappear somewhere in
Bohemia and tries Hermione for adultery. Meanwhile, Leontes’s young son,

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11. Cerita
Point  View
Of
Content
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