Project Gutenberg 2006-05-04 Public domain in the USA. 44 Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 Shakspeare, William Shakspere, William Guizot, François 1787 1874 Guizot, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, M. (François) Guisot, M. (François) Guizot, Monsieur (François) Guizot, François The Winter's Tale. French Le conte d'hiver Reading ease score: 78.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Paul Murray, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) "Le conte d'hiver" by William Shakespeare is a tragedy written in the early 17th century. The play spans a time frame of sixteen years and explores themes of jealousy, redemption, and the passage of time through intertwined stories of love and betrayal. The main characters include Leontes, the king of Sicilia, whose unfounded jealousy sets off a tragic chain of events, and Hermione, his wrongfully accused wife. At the start of the play, we are introduced to the friendship between Leontes and Polixenes, the king of Bohemia. As Polixenes visits Sicilia, Leontes's suspicion that Hermione is having an affair with him grows uncontrollably. The first act sets the stage for the unfolding drama, as Leontes's jealousy leads him to falsely accuse Hermione and isolate her from their son, Mamilius. The audience can sense the impending tragedy as the characters' fates begin to intertwine under the weight of Leontes's misguided suspicion and the consequences of his actions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Fathers and daughters -- Drama Married people -- Drama Tragicomedy Castaways -- Drama Sicily (Italy) -- Kings and rulers -- Drama PR Text FR Théâtre Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 250278 249546 2024-10-08T07:17:23.541461 2023-09-08T09:03:01.421509 text/html text/html 244053 2006-05-04T15:03:48 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 88318 2006-05-04T15:03:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 159056 2024-10-08T07:17:29.708444 application/epub+zip 161765 2024-10-08T07:17:25.510443 application/epub+zip 161765 2024-10-08T07:17:24.269463 application/epub+zip 303626 2024-10-08T07:17:32.676421 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 299449 2024-10-08T07:17:28.939436 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 277035 2022-09-08T15:50:11.144519 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 223298 223060 2024-10-08T07:17:22.595475 2023-09-08T09:03:00.770515 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 218642 2006-05-04T15:03:48 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 84306 2006-05-04T15:03:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 22002 2024-10-08T07:17:32.856396 application/rdf+xml 12526 2024-10-08T07:17:24.819450 image/jpeg 3362 2024-10-08T07:17:24.542435 image/jpeg 156112 2024-10-08T07:17:23.565451 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia