Today’s Totally Random
Lines
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that she were gone,
Given to the fire, a moiety of my rest
Might come to me again.
Leontes
The Winter’s Tale Act II, Scene iii, Line 9
Leontes is wondering aloud if his sleeplessness might be cured by burning his wife at the stake. He is convinced (wrongly) that she has been unfaithful to him, and that is weighing heavily on his mind; that and the fact that his son has been very ill.
This is a pretty weird play. It’s not a tragedy, even though a few people do end up dying. It’s not got much, if any, funny stuff in it, so it’s not a comedy. It’s certainly not a history play. Maybe you could call it a romance, but that would be a stretch. So, what is it? I think we have to call it a problem play.
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