Thus the poet of tragedy produces an ecstasy. Here was a meaning given to what was beyond all meaning, a light cast over what must forever remain dark beyond all penetration. …Here was something intensely human, yet super human. Lauchen Maclean Watt commenting on the function of chorus in his article, “Attic and Elizabethan Tragedy”, he deducts that: Shakespeare leaving Leontes, who mourns the result of the foolish jealousies, who shuts himself away from human company transports the audience through this chorus of Time to comical events after sixteen years. Over sixteen years, and leave slide the growth untried Of good and bad, it makes and unfold error, I that please some, try all: both joy and tenor To introduce the next part or structure of the play and make it convincing to the Elizabethan audience “Time” enters as chorus and announces the passage of sixteen years. In a fit of jealousy he abandons his other baby with the help of Antigonus on the coast of Bohemia.
SONG WITH THE CHORUS LINE GRAVE HAS OVERCOME SERIES
So Leontes is seized with jealousy over their relationship in the first three Acts of the play which leads into series of events those results in the death of his wife Hermione and his son Mamillus. But Polixenes refuses and when Leontes’ queen Hermione requests him, he accepts to stay a little longer in Sicilia. Leontes tries to convince Polixenes to stay for longer.
King Polixenes, the king of Bohemia is visiting King Leontes who happens to be his friend and decides to leave Sicilia after his visit. The first part of the structure is Sicilia kingdom ruled by King Leontes. I think the contrast in the play makes perfect sense, we begin in Sicilia, we sojourn in Bohemia… (James Deborah, 2002.)
To create the two different worlds of Sicilia and Bohemia and yet to have them seem necessary to each other is one of the challenges of The Winter’s Tale. While commenting in the structure of the play, the Director Martin Maraden points out: It is expressed in a brilliant two part structure. It is a romantic play with unique dramatic structure. It includes conflicts within friends, family and generations. It is a comedy hovering on the brinks of tragedy. The Winter’s Tale is a great tragic comedy.
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