PERDITA (the Royal Milkmaid)
Miss Marie Wilton.
PAULINA (a strong-minded Matron; considerably the better-half of Antigonus)
Mrs. Weston.
In 1817 Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote a dramatic poem, entitled “Zapolya, a Christmas Tale,” to which he prefixed the remark, “The form of the following dramatic poem is in humble imitation of the Winter’s Tale of Shakespeare.”
Beyond the mere form, however, Zapolya has little or no resemblance to Shakespeare’s play.
KING HENRY V.
ACT IV.