The Winter's Tale

William Shakespeare

Dramatis Personae

 
LEONTES, King of Sicilia
MAMILLIUS, his son
CAMILLO, Sicilian Lord
ANTIGONUS, Sicilian Lord
CLEOMENES, Sicilian Lord
DION, Sicilian Lord
POLIXENES, King of Bohemia
FLORIZEL, his son
ARCHIDAMUS, a Bohemian Lord
An Old Shepherd, reputed father of Perdita
CLOWN, his son
AUTOLYCUS, a rogue
A Mariner
Gaoler
Servant to the Old Shepherd
Other Sicilian Lords
Sicilian Gentlemen
Officers of a Court of Judicature
 
HERMIONE, Queen to Leontes
PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and Hermione
PAULINA, wife to Antigonus
EMILIA, a lady attending on the Queen
MOPSA, shepherdess
DORCAS, shepherdess
Other Ladies, attending on the Queen
 
Lords, Ladies, and Attendants; Satyrs
         for a Dance; Shepherds,
Shepherdesses, Guards, &c.
 
TIME, as Chorus
 
 
 
 
Scene:
 
Sometimes in Sicilia; sometimes in Bohemia.
 
 
 



 
 

 

ACT I.