The Winter's Tale

This late Shakespeare play opens at the Sicilian court, where King Leontes suddenly accuses his pregnant wife Hermione of adultery with his childhood friend Polixenes, King of Bohemia. A trial, an oracle, and the death of a young prince follow; the newborn Perdita is sent to be abandoned on the Bohemian coast. After a sixteen-year gap marked by Time, the action shifts to a sheep-shearing festival where Perdita, raised by a shepherd, loves Prince Florizel. The last acts return the lost daughter to Sicilia and stage a reunion with the living and the supposedly dead. First performed about 1611.

Series binding. Mottled grey slipcase.