A Review of The Winters Tale by William Shakespeare :: Papers

A Review of The Winters Tale by William Shakespeare Before I truly saw The Winters Tale, I was apprehensive ab bring out whether I would be adequate to follow the play or whether I would be confused, as it would be using the Shakespearian spoken language. I also wondered whether and how the sixth Form and the music director had developed the play to try and involve the audience more, as in that location was a language barrier. The play was going to be performed by the Sixth Form in the school hall, so this gave me a feeling that it would non be a very effective performance as it was performed by amateurs. Also, the position that it was performed by the Sixth Form meant that I knew some of the actors, so it would be more difficult for me to see those people as the characters they played. fleck waiting outside for the performance to begin, a newspaper boy came around offering Newspapers reflexion Read all about it, read all about it. He was in Vic torian time costume, which gave me the impression that this performance would be very unfashionable and, in some ways, not as easy to follow because of this. The fact that he was in costume also made me feel as if we, the audience, were part of the play, and more involved, because we were interacting with a character from the play. The newspaper that the newsboy gave out was also a very effective thing to bridge the language barrier between the characters and us as it gave a basic gateway to what the play was about. According to the newspaper given to us, the play itself had two main(prenominal) plots and a side plot. One plot was set in Sicilia and told of how the tycoon had died because of accusations from the King of her having an affair with his old friend the King of Bohemia and how Mamillius, their son, had also died after the King had chosen to ignore the oracle sent from Apollo to say that the ottoman was not guilty.