This Original Edition of "The Winter's Tale" Features Beautiful Illustrations Plus Dynamic Act & Scene Linking For Instant, Easy Navigation. The setting is Sicily, and Polixenes, the King of Bohemia, is visiting his childhood friend, Sicily's King, Leontes. Leontes suspects that his wife Hermione and Polixenes are having an affair and he becomes murderously jealous. Leontes tells Camillo, one of his lords, that he wants him to poison Polixenes. Camillo, however, informs Polixenes of the plan, and the two men quickly depart for Bohemia. Shakespeare took much of the story from Pondasto, A Triumph of Time by Robert Greene, a contemporary of his who had little admiration for the playwright. Shakespeare changed the story by giving it a happy ending. The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1610. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances.
- ISBN10 1105202968
- ISBN13 9781105202964
- Publish Date 3 November 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English