FINIS

THE WINTER’S TALE

Contents

ACT I
[Scene I. Sicilia. An Antechamber in Leontes’ Palace.]
[Scene II. The same. A Room of State in the Palace.]
ACT II
[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.]
ACT III
[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.]
ACT IV
[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.]
ACT V
[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