文档介绍：THE WINTER'S TALE
THE WINTER'S TALE
William Shakespeare
1611
THE WINTER'S TALE
Dramatis Personae
LEONTES, King of Sicilia MAMILLIUS, his son, the young Prince
of Sicilia CAMILLO, lord of Sicilia ANTIGONUS, " " " CLEOMENES, "
" " DION, " " " POLIXENES, King of Bohemia FLORIZEL, his son,
Prince of Bohemia ARCHIDAMUS, a lord of Bohemia OLD SHEPHERD,
reputed father of Perdita CLOWN, his son AUTOLYCUS, a rogue A
MARINER A GAOLER TIME, as Chorus
HERMIONE, Queen to Leontes PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and
Hermione PAULINA, wife to Antigonus EMILIA, a lady attending on the
Queen MOPSA, shepherdess DORCAS, "
Other Lords, Gentlemen, Ladies, Officers, Servants, Shepherds,
Shepherdesses
Scene: Sicilia and Bohemia
THE WINTER'S TALE
ACT I.
THE WINTER'S TALE
SCENE I. Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES
Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS
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 ing 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 train'd 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 necess