Winter's Tale
Cold-season theatrical work
*The Winter's Tale* is a late Shakespeare play (c. 1611), classified among his romances.
The plot spans sixteen years, moving from tragedy—a king's jealous rage destroys his family—to redemption and reunion.
The title suggests an old wives' tale, something fantastical told by the fire: It's like something out of a winter's tale.
The phrase occasionally appears lowercase for any story of loss, endurance, and eventual restoration.
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- stage playLive theatrical work
- playRecreation or staged drama
- romanceLove and its excitement
- lost childYouth separated from caretakers
Hermione · jealousy · royal court · redemption · statue · living statue · Bohemia · Sicily · bear attack · pastoral · shepherd · oracle · comedy · happy ending · reconciliation · forgiveness · snowfall · frosty
- ShakespeareRomeo, Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello
- reconciliationreconciliation, reconcile, reconciled, reconciling, making up
Winter's TaleA Midsummer Night's Dream
Twelfth Night · As You Like It · Much Ado About Nothing · The Tempest