Shakespeare's Globe Theatre: The Winter's Tale

The action takes place in two kingdoms - Sicily and Bohemia - and covers a period of sixteen years, during which nothing happens. The plot is set by the unreasonable jealousy of the Sicilian king Leont, who, suspecting his wife Hermione of treason, puts her in prison; and his friend, the “traitor” Polixen, orders to kill. Then Hermione gives birth to a girl, whom the evil monarch sends into exile in Bohemia. Years pass, and young Utrata, together with her lover, Polyxen’s son, with the name Floriselle, more