Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare (Summary) - Readers' Corner

This is tragic and comedy work of Williams Shakespeare . The plots starts during winter where the story is tragic and after a lapse of many years a happy ending at the burst of of spring (Where every things come to life )

The tale takes the reader to two boyhood friends who are are also Kings of their respective country' Bohemia and Sicily.

King Polixenes of Bohemia is on holiday with his friend and has overdue his stay there .

The King of Siciliy King Leontes develops anabsurd jealousy over his friend with his wife as having an illegitimate relation ship

He plans to kill his freind and tells it Camillo one of his lords

Disturbed Camillo advises the Bohemian King and they flee to Bohemia

King Leontess enraged , publicly accuses his pregnant wife Hermione of adultery and pushes her to prison .

Hermione gives birth to a baby girl in prison and the report from the Delph
arrives that the Queen is chaste

Paulina a noble lady and freind of the Queens tries her best to convincve to the King with no avail ....finally she takes the baby and shows him . He orders the baby to be thrown away by Paulina's husband

At the court hearing Hermione swoops on hearing that their son the Prince had died .
IT is then undertstood that the Queen had passed away where has Hermione was guarding her at her home in the country side secretly.

The King hearing this realizes his mistakes and is made to lament over his wrong doings

Many years has passed at the wake of spring Perdita is being wooed by tPrince Florizel She is in fact the lost Princess of Sicily being brought up by a Shepard

The couple marry and run away to Sicily in disguise and it is finally found out who Perditta is when the Shepard tell the story
The King rejoices and also gets united with his wife Hermione with the help of Paulina

This another wonderful story of Shakespeare and is said to be one of his latter writings

You could read it viahttp://shakespeare.mit.edu/winters_tale/full.html

Best if you could via paper back :)
Enjoy reading

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Nadira February 23, 2014 13:52

This is link to a play of Winter's Tale

http://youtu.be/Ue71lbwTDwc
- angel > Nadira February 23, 2014 16:15
  
  dear nadira !!!
  
  thanks for a kind reminder of shakespeare ......
- Nadira > angel February 24, 2014 2:22
  
  With pleasure :)
A dream February 6, 2014 5:13

Thanks dear Nadira :)

I have not ever read book of Shakespeare ...

It seems really intresting book ..

Thanks for your suggestion : )))
- Nadira > A dream February 14, 2014 10:26
  
  Thank you Sima
  
  I am sure you will not regret reading them :)
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- Nadira February 4, 2014 16:27
  
  Rather you will learn new words of the old order :)
  
  Thank you dear
noaslpls February 4, 2014 13:59

I am reading the Act 1, Scene II half way through and realised that I don't really understand most of the conversations. I am used to read books by scanning the paragraph and voila understand the whole context of the paragraph, but not this play.

I think I need to re-learn on how to read slowly. LOL. It's really testing my patience. But, I am taking it as a new challenge, and will try to re-read the Scene II again, this time, more slowly.

Most importantly, I learnt new vocabularies which maybe seldom being used nowadays.

1. Verily : truly; certainly (adverb)

2. Beseech : truly; certainly (literary)
- Nadira > noaslpls February 4, 2014 16:28
  
  Eureka well done :))
noaslpls February 4, 2014 9:21

I never read any of Shakespeare's works. Maybe I will try to read this one. Thank you Nadira for introducing this.
- Nadira > noaslpls February 4, 2014 10:48
  
  Sure you should enjoy Shakespeare's literary works.:)

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