The Winter’s Tale is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays. It’s not quite a ‘late bloomer’ play but it’s not so far off. Having been stuck in my sick bed, I gave some thought to what the play might look like if the hinge scene where Antigonus abandons the baby Perdita and she is rescued by shepherds, was written differently. Shakespeare is full of dramatic possibility: you often really don’t know which way things might go. Adoption dramas are the closest modern equivalent we have to this play.
The ones I think about a lot are swapping the resolutions of Romeo And Juliet and Much Ado - so Benedick does kill Claudio; Romeo doesn't kill Tybalt. (Apologies for spoilers.)
Possible endings for The Winter's Tale
The ones I think about a lot are swapping the resolutions of Romeo And Juliet and Much Ado - so Benedick does kill Claudio; Romeo doesn't kill Tybalt. (Apologies for spoilers.)
Perdition means "the lost one." I liked this play when I read it at UBC many moons ago. Also Pericles. Shakespeare was awesome!