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The Winter’s Tale - ebook
The Winter’s Tale - ebook
This play is not just a fairy tale by its name, everything in it is amazing and unbelievable, and it would be ridiculous to look for likelihood here! But, as you know, a fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it, because among the wonderful fairy-tale accidents of the play we learn about what actually happens. That there are jealous husbands, rejected wives, abandoned children, as well as good nurses, loyal servants, honest counselors. That evil can take possession of the human soul, as it possessed Leont, who broke his own happiness and the happiness of those he loved. And that only time can put everything in its place.
Kategoria: | Classic Literature |
Język: | Angielski |
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ISBN: | 978-83-8200-051-1 |
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FRAGMENT KSIĄŻKI
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I
SCENE I. Sicilia. An Antechamber in LEONTES' Palace.
SCENE II. The same. A Room of State in the Palace.
ACT II
SCENE I. Sicilia. A Room in the Palace.
SCENE II. The same. The outer Room of a Prison.
SCENE III. The same. A Room in the Palace.
ACT III
SCENE I. Sicilia. A Street in some Town.
SCENE II. The same. A Court of Justice
SCENE III. Bohemia. A desert Country near the Sea.
ACT IV
SCENE I.
SCENE II. Bohemia. A Room in the palace of POLIXENES.
SCENE III. The same. A Road near the Shepherd's cottage.
SCENE IV. The same. A Shepherd's Cottage.
ACT V
SCENE I. Sicilia. A Room in the palace of LEONTES.
SCENE II. The same. Before the Palace.
SCENE III. The same. A Room in PAULINA's house.DRAMATIS PERSONAE
LEONTES, King of Sicilia.
MAMILLIUS, his son.
CAMILLO, Sicilian Lord.
ANTIGONUS, Sicilian Lord.
CLEOMENES, Sicilian Lord.
DION, Sicilian Lord.
Other Sicilian Lords.
Sicilian Gentlemen.
Officers of a Court of Judicature.
POLIXENES, King of Bohemia.
FLORIZEL, his son.
ARCHIDAMUS, a Bohemian Lord.
A Mariner.
Gaoler.
An Old Shepherd, reputed father of Perdita.
CLOWN, his son.
Servant to the Old Shepherd.
AUTOLYCUS, a rogue.
TIME, as Chorus.
HERMIONE, Queen to Leontes.
PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and Hermione.
PAULINA, wife to Antigonus.
EMILIA, a lady attending on the Queen.
Other Ladies, attending on the Queen.
MOPSA, shepherdess.
DORCAS, shepherdess.
Lords, Ladies, and Attendants; Satyrs for a Dance; Shepherds, Shepherdesses, Guards, &c.
SCENE: Sometimes in Sicilia; sometimes in Bohemia.ACT I
SCENE I. Sicilia. An Antechamber in LEONTES’ Palace
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
Sicilia.
CAMILLO.
I think this coming summer the King of Sicilia means to
pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him.
ARCHIDAMUS.
Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be
justified in our loves; for indeed,–
CAMILLO.
Beseech you,–
ARCHIDAMUS.
Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge: we
cannot with such magnificence–in so rare–I know not what to
say.–We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses,
unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot
praise us, as little accuse us.
CAMILLO.
You pay a great deal too dear for what’s given freely.
ARCHIDAMUS.
Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me
and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.
CAMILLO.
Sicilia cannot show himself overkind to Bohemia. They were
trained together in their childhoods; and there rooted betwixt
them then such an affection which cannot choose but branch now.
Since their more mature dignities and royal necessities made
separation of their society, their encounters, though not
personal, have been royally attorneyed with interchange of gifts,
letters, loving embassies; that they have seemed to be together,
though absent; shook hands, as over a vast; and embraced as it
were from the ends of opposed winds. The heavens continue their
loves!
ARCHIDAMUS.
I think there is not in the world either malice or matter to
alter it. You have an unspeakable comfort of your young Prince
Mamillius: it is a gentleman of the greatest promise that ever
came into my note.
CAMILLO.
I very well agree with you in the hopes of him. It is a
gallant child; one that indeed physics the subject, makes old
hearts fresh: they that went on crutches ere he was born desire
yet their life to see him a man.
ARCHIDAMUS.
Would they else be content to die?
CAMILLO.
Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should desire to
live.
ARCHIDAMUS.
If the king had no son, they would desire to live on crutches
till he had one.
SCENE II. The same. A Room of State in the Palace
POLIXENES.
Nine changes of the watery star hath been
The shepherd’s note since we have left our throne
Without a burden: time as long again
Would be fill’d up, my brother, with our thanks;
And yet we should, for perpetuity,
Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher,
Yet standing in rich place, I multiply
With one we-thank-you many thousands more
That go before it.
LEONTES.
Stay your thanks a while,
And pay them when you part.
POLIXENES.
Sir, that’s to-morrow.
I am question’d by my fears, of what may chance
Or breed upon our absence; that may blow
No sneaping winds at home, to make us say,
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