the Winter's Tale | Shakespeare Play by Play #7
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- Today we're taking a deeper look at The Winter's Tale. Click [CC] for subtitles!
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Watching this half an hour before my exam and found it so so helpful thank you!!
I personally see THE WINTER'S TALE as a myth, mostly about redemption. Leontes (who, like so many kings in Shakespeare, becomes disconnected with the truth) commits a terrible sin, doing open sixteen years of penance and guilt, trusting his kingdom's fate to the oracle's prophecy rather than moving on with his life. He is both Lear and Othello, but who live instead of die, and wins what seems like the ultimate Christian gift--forgiveness. No accident his daughter ends up named Perdita (as in "perdition") that that his prophetess/advisor is Paulina (like the super strict Apostle Paul).
I have seen two and a half productions of this, the full productions moving me greatly. The 'half' was Patrick Stewart in a televised Shakespeare Workshop doing the final scene--and again, moving me to tears.
Very cool analysis....As an actor, this is one of the two Shakespeare plays i actually performed in a number of years ago, lol...(With the Michigan Classical Repertory Theatre)....i played Autolycus in this show (who, as people watching this video might notice that this character is not mentioned, because technically he is not crucial to the PLOT directly, but definitely indirectly...and also used a comic relief (with the Shepherd's son (Clown)) and used as an exposition dump in Act 5 when the characters ALLLL move back to Sicily with Perdita and Florizel!)....it's Shakespeare's only tragi-comedy I think and definitely unique in his canon....:D Very fun to play in and re-live it through the analysis of the show!
I love these videos. Winter's Tale is one that I'm not familiar with, but my curiosity has been sparked!
Thank you Lauren for this video, it's a great summary and you make it really interesting to hear. Also loved your analysis on how this compares to other Shakespearian stories.
Currently reading this one. I enjoyed your thorough breakdown of this play. Thanks for the review and thoughts!
We call it "cliff notes" in America. A briefing that compresses and sumerises a work of literature. I've always been curious about this one. I saw a BBC production of Twelfth Night with Felicity Kendal as the female twin being taken as a man. Actually very entertaining. So was curious about this one. So thanx
Hah, I was wondering if you would mention the ballet production . Of course you do :) I've seen it in one of the live brodcasts they do and it blew me away!!! The story-telling in choreography
You hit two of the plays I was thinking Winter's Tale had similar themes to (Romeo and Juliet and Othello). Also, I kept thinking that Hermione wasn't actually a statue but pretended to be one at her "unveiling" after being kept hidden and safe until the appropriate time. This would account for everyone seeing her aged and no longer young. I didn't know anything about the ballet. I wish there was a TH-cam video of it as my getting to see it in person would be pretty slim.
Really enjoyed this! I studied the Winter's Tale at uni years ago and I've been left with this feeling of wanting to understand it better ever since. I also didn't love A Gap In Time, which is a real shame. It felt like quite a surface level interpretation when I had hoped for so much more!
This was so wonderful, eloquent and really informative. After watching this, I'm both intrigued to watch the rest of this series and to read Shakespeare, which my uni professors couldn't do. Love your channel! 😊 -Kristina
I love your play by play series. I read The Winter's Tale during the second semester of uni. It seems ages ago and frankly, I didn't remember anything 🙈 Thank you for refreshing my memory :)
I really need to reread it soon
Simple and to the point .That was extremely useful .Thank you
I really enjoyed this video. Getting back into reading Shakespeare is one of my reading goals this year but I couldn't decide which ones I wanted to read. This one is definitely on my list now
I love these videos. Thanks for refreshing my school memories.
thanks this was really easy to understand and enjoy!
Brilliant review! Thank you Laura!
Thank you for being so precise and too the point. Nothing irrelevant and it helped me a lot.
Nice analysis! Well done!
This is so helpful! I am preparing for my A-Level exam and I love the fact that you were able to make it short and snappy. Thank you and I wish you all the best!
PS: I love Literature, and publish some myself :)
Thank you for this! I read A Winters Tale ages ago and never really warmed to it. Bought the Hogarth retelling in the hope that it would help give a different perspective. In slightly less of a rush to read that now give your brief review! It’s a shame so many from that series haven’t gone down well.
Did you see the recent NT production of Twelfth Night? I absolutely loved that, especially as the more slapstick comedy moments didn’t feel so forced. That’s a bit of a bugbear of mine.
Is the fact that there is no escape from the death of the son, Mamillius, no atonement for this tragedy, something to do with the loss of Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet, who died aged 11? Just a thought?
this is better than my 2 hour lectures THANK YOU
Excellent summary of this The Winter's Tale. Thanks so much.. I thought also there was a theme of strong women in this play. I don't know if that's something Shakespeare promoted in his other plays.
Wonderful, thank you.
Great Video ty!
Wonderful, as an actor this was helpful!
Thanks to this video,I can do my final exam :) thnx from Turkey
Omg, you look like Jessie J!