Reissue of the version released by Time-Life Video in 1981; originally broadcast by the BBC in 1980. Jeremy Kemp (Leontes), Robert Stephens (Polixenes), Anna Calder-Marshall (Hermione), Debbie Farrington (Perdita), Margaret Tyzack (Paulina), Cyril Luckham (Antigonus), Rikki Fulton (Autolycus), John Curless (Cleomenes), Colin McCormack (Dion), Robin Kermode (Florizel).
Summary:
King Leontes unjustly accuses his wife Hermione of adultery with King Polixenes. He imprisons Hermione, who falls into a swoon he believes is death, and orders her infant daughter to be abandoned on the shore. Sixteen years later, their daughter falls in love with Polixenes's son and when they come to Leontes' kingdom, her identity is revealed. Leontes and Polixenes become friends again, and Hermione is found to be alive after all.
Series:
The complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)30259919
Locations:
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)
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