The Tudor Shakespeare . s no more conspicuous in the help- J^less Shepherd and the wily yet sage Autolycus than in theV r« b?young hero and heroine, immortal incarnations of youth jT .as they are. Perd^ta^ even in the merriment of the sheep--^ &4Lshearing feast, tempers the elation of her love with some- V^ ^thing of her mothers^ sense of the realities of life; andFlorizel meets the rebuffs of fortune with manly quiet-ness: — Why look you so upon me?I am but sorry, not afeard; delayedBut nothing altered. What I was, I am. xviii 31ntrot>uction This fidelity to the actual in character is nowh
The Tudor Shakespeare . s no more conspicuous in the help- J^less Shepherd and the wily yet sage Autolycus than in theV r« b?young hero and heroine, immortal incarnations of youth jT .as they are. Perd^ta^ even in the merriment of the sheep--^ &4Lshearing feast, tempers the elation of her love with some- V^ ^thing of her mothers^ sense of the realities of life; andFlorizel meets the rebuffs of fortune with manly quiet-ness: — Why look you so upon me?I am but sorry, not afeard; delayedBut nothing altered. What I was, I am. xviii 31ntrot>uction This fidelity to the actual in character is nowhere moremarked than in Hermione. The victim of strange for-tunes, and with a story as romantically unreal as that ofany fairy tale, she is yet as fully individualized a person-ality as even Cleopatra or Lady Macbeth; and the radiantloveliness of her character, which forms the centralbeauty of the end as of the beginning of the play, is per-haps the more lustrous for its contrast with the wildromance of her Cl^c minttt^ Cale ^^. / > lords of Sicilia. .^^yoA.^ [DRAMATIS PERSON/E] Leontes, King of Sicilia. Mamillius, young prince of Sicilia. Camillo, 1 Antigonus, Cleomenes, Dion, J PoLiXENES, King of Bohemia. Florizel, prince of Bohemia. Archidamtjs, a lord of Old Shepherd, reputed father of Perdita.•^lown, his son. AuTOLTcus, a rogue. [A Mariner.] [A Gaoler.] Hermione, queen to Leontes. Perdita, daughter to Leontes and Hermione. Paulina, wife to Antigonus. Emilia, a lady [attending on Hermione]. [MOPSA, * u u J 1 ,^ c shepherdesses.] [DORCAB, S [Time, as Chorus.] Other Lords and Gentlemen [Ladies, Officers] and Servants, Shepherds, and Shepherdesses. [Scene: Sicilia and Bohemia.] ACT FIRST & ( ^v --f J. Scene i [Sicilia. Ante-chamber in the palace of Leontes.] Enter Camillo and Archidamus. Arch. If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohe-mia on the like occasion whereon my servicesare now on foot, you shall see, as I have said,J w/ great difference betw
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