The Winter's Tale - Theme of Time
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- Created on: 28-05-18 14:56
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- Time – both as a personified ‘chorus’ that helps smooth the sixteen-year gap between ActsThree and Four and as a through-line enabling the mistakes of the past to be set right by the new generation; related to imagery of age and changing seasons.
- Time is both a definitive theme and a personified character in The Winter’s Tale, emphasising its importance to understanding the events of the play.
- Some see the Time-as-chorus speech as a narrative ‘slip’, evidence of poor craftsmanship and/or even a contribution by an additional author of inferior skill. Others feel it functions as a pivot,working alongside the storm and the bear to signify a shift in tone to the audience.
- Certainly Time’s speech is unnecessary in terms of…
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