The Winter's Tale: The Tragedy Within A Romance
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In 1623, the complete works of Shakespeare were published in the First
Folio. Within this Folio were the works of Shakespeare categorized by their
genre. There were tragedies, histories, comedies, and the final four were
romances. Prior to this time, romance was not a widespread genre in anyone ....
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.... The first of these five acts is the exposition.
The story is set up and you are thrust into Leontes internal passion of jealousy.
The second act is where Leontes expresses his passion externally by accusing
Hermione of sleeping with Polixenes. He then has his wife taken off to jail.
The third act is where we see the first contest, or agon. This takes place when
Paulina brings the baby daughter from jail and presents it to Leontes. The two
battle back and forth, attempting to prove t ....
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