The Winter's Tale
MAMILLIUS -- his son
CAMILLO, ANTIGONUS, DION -- Sicilian lords
Other Sicilian lords
Sicilian Gentlemen
Officers of a Court of Judicature
POLIXENES -- King of Bohemia
FLORIZEL -- his son
ARCHIDAMUS -- a Bohemian lord
A Mariner
Gaoler
An old Shepherd -- reputed father of PERDITA
Clown -- his son
Servant to the old Shepherd
AUTOLYCUS -- a rogue
Time -- as Chorus
HERMIONE -- Queen to LEONTES
PERDITA -- daughter to LEONTES and HERMIONE
PAULINA -- wife of ANTIGONUS
EMILIA -- a lady, other Ladies/attending the QUEEN
MOPSA, DORCAS -- shepherdesses
Lords, ladies, and attendants
Satyrs for a dance
Shepherds, shepherdesses, guards
PLAY
Sometimes in Sicilia; sometimes in Bohemia.
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. An 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 desdert country near the sea.
ACT IV
Prologue
Scene i: Bohemia. A room in the palce of Polixenes.
Scene ii: The same. A road near the shepherd's cottage.
Scene iii: 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.
Act IV: Scene iii
AUTOLYCUS: I understand the business, -- I hear it; to have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cut-purse; a good nose is requisite also, to smell out work for the other senses. I see this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive. What an exchange had this been without boot? what a boot is here with this exchange? Sure, the gods do this year connive at us, and we may do anything extempore. The prince himself is about a piece of iniquity, -- stealing away from his father with his clog at his heels: if I thought it were a piece of honesty to acquaint the king withal, I would not do't: I hold it the more knavery to conceal it, and therein am I constant to my profession.
