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"Like an old tale still": The Winter’s Tale and Bard on the Beach
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Budra, Paul |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | The director of The Winter's Tale, Dean Paul Gibson, is a friend and he asked me to spend an afternoon with the cast of the play early in the rehearsal schedule. I've done this before for Dean's 2012 production of King John and his 2009 Othello. As an informal dramaturg, I sat around a table with the cast, spoke for some 20 minutes about the history of the play and what I see as some of its challenges, and then I spent a couple of hours answering questions: why is that god Apollo referenced so many times in the play? What does Leontes mean by "affection"? The most confounding question came from the actor playing Antigonus. He pointed out that in Antigonus' last speech, the character addresses the baby Perdita and says, "Poor wretch, / That for thy mother's fault art thus exposed / To loss, and what may follow!" (3.3.1491-1493) Does this mean, he wanted to know, that Antigonus believes Hermione to be guilty of adultery after he has been such an advocate for her innocence? Why else would he use the word "fault"? A quick check of the OED revealed that the word can mean "absence" but in performance that meaning did not come across. |
| Starting Page | 15 |
| Ending Page | 15 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.18357/scene02201718360 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/scene/article/viewFile/18360/7760 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.18357/scene02201718360 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
