The Winter's Tale - Other Connections
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- Created on: 29-05-18 10:43
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- Compare Leontes and Autolycus. Both are ‘performers’ – Autolycus of crowd-pleasing ballads, Leontes of a kind of pantomime of normality when he claims he will ‘play… so disgraced a part’ in Act One scene Two.
- Both use soliloquies, but differently – Autolycus employs his to connect with audience, while Leontes’ show his increasing isolation. Autolycus claims he was born ‘under Mercury’, which in line with common astrological beliefs at the time…
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