Shakespeare

The Statue After Sixteen Years

Forgiveness 3, Hermione

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A king sits while his counsellors lean in to speak to him.
Illustration by John Gilbert, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers, The Plays of Shakespeare, ed. Howard Staunton, Routledge, 1858-64Original

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Florizel and Perdita come ashore in Sicilia. They are running from someone. Leontes receives them.

The old king welcomes the young man. He speaks of what he and the young man’s father once were to each other. And he looks a long time at the young woman beside him.

Polixenes arrives soon after. Among those with him is the old shepherd of Bohemia. In the old man’s hands are things from sixteen years ago.

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