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   The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, many modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances.

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3. www.litcharts.com › lit › the-winter-s-taleFriendship and Love Theme in The Winter's Tale | LitCharts

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   The Winter’s Tale explores different kinds of relationships between family members, spouses, and friends. The play is especially interested in the strong friendship between Leontes and Polixenes.

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   The Winter's Tale Summary. The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdita, who is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes' friend.

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6. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › winterstaleThe Winter's Tale: Study Guide | SparkNotes

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   The Winter’s Tale, one of William Shakespeare’s final plays, was first performed in 1610 or 1611. Along with Pericles , Cymbeline , and The Tempest , it is one of the genre-defying later plays that are usually referred to as romances, or tragicomedies.

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   Sixteen years pass, and the son of Polixenes, Prince Florizel, falls in love with Perdita. His father and Camillo attend a sheepshearing in disguise and watch as Florizel and Perdita are betrothed—then, tearing off the disguise, Polixenes intervenes and orders his son never to see the Shepherd's daughter again.

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   One of Shakespeare’s final plays, The Winter’s Tale is a romantic comedy with elements of tragedy. The plot was based on a work of prose fiction called Pandosto (1588) by Robert Greene. The play opens with Leontes, the king of Sicilia, entertaining his old friend Polixenes, the king of Bohemia.

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   Is the Winter's Tale based on a true story?

   • One of Shakespeare’s final plays, The Winter’s Tale is a romantic comedy with elements of tragedy. The plot was based on a work of prose fiction called Pandosto (1588) by Robert Greene. The play opens with Leontes, the king of Sicilia, entertaining his old friend Polixenes, the king of Bohemia.

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   When was the Winter's Tale written?

   • The Winter’s Tale, one of William Shakespeare ’s final plays, was first performed in 1610 or 1611. Along with Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Tempest, it is one of the genre-defying later plays that are usually referred to as romances, or tragicomedies. Each of these plays has a happy ending that sets them apart from earlier histories and tragedies.

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   Is the Winter's Tale a romance?

   • However, in recent years, it has been recategorized by scholars as a romance – or a play that blends elements of the tragic and comic, often to shape a narrative of redemption. Indeed, The Winter's Tale features a relatively tragic beginning, with the infant Perdita being abandoned and her mother, Hermione, dying in prison.

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   What is the ending of the Winter's Tale?

   • The play's ending – which is largely redemptive – shows how the pursuit of truth over one's own biases is more valuable than the pursuit of justice for justice's sake. The Winter's Tale features a number of different loving relationships: friendship (especially homosocial friendship between Leontes and Polixenes), familial love, and romantic love.

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    The Winter's Tale features a number of different loving relationships: friendship (especially homosocial friendship between Leontes and Polixenes), familial love, and romantic love. All of these relationships are complicated throughout the play by characters' assumptions and misinterpretations; Leontes, for example, assumes that Polixenes ...