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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Chapter 1069: Dramatis Personæ

By William Shakespeare

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This collection gathers dramatic works and lyrical poems spanning comedies, tragedies, histories, and a sonnet sequence, presenting plays in verse and prose alongside narrative poems. The pieces examine human experience through recurring themes of love, ambition, jealousy, power, fate, and the tension between appearance and reality, moving between comic confusion and tragic collapse. Language and theatrical craft are central, employing vivid imagery, rhetorical invention, puns, and varied poetic forms to probe identity, political conflict, and moral choice across intimate moments and public spectacle.

THE WINTER’S TALE

Contents

Scene I. Sicilia. An Antechamber in Leontes’ Palace.

Scene II. The same. A Room of State in the Palace.

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.

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.

Scene I. Prologue.

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.

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 Personæ

LEONTES, King of Sicilia
MAMILLIUS, his son
CAMILLO, Sicilian Lord
ANTIGONUS, Sicilian Lord
CLEOMENES, Sicilian Lord
DION, Sicilian Lord
POLIXENES, King of Bohemia
FLORIZEL, his son
ARCHIDAMUS, a Bohemian Lord
An Old Shepherd, reputed father of Perdita
CLOWN, his son
AUTOLYCUS, a rogue
A Mariner
A Gaoler
Servant to the Old Shepherd
Other Sicilian Lords
Sicilian Gentlemen
Officers of a Court of Judicature

HERMIONE, Queen to Leontes
PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and Hermione
PAULINA, wife to Antigonus
EMILIA, a lady attending on the Queen
MOPSA, shepherdess
DORCAS, shepherdess
Other Ladies, attending on the Queen

Lords, Ladies, and Attendants; Satyrs for a Dance; Shepherds, Shepherdesses, Guards, &c.

TIME, as Chorus

Scene: Sometimes in Sicilia; sometimes in Bohemia.