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Polixenes

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role in “The Winter’s Tale”

  • Costume design for a shepherdess by Guy-Pierre Fauconnet for a 1920 Paris production of The Winter's Tale.
    In The Winter’s Tale

    …Sicilia, entertaining his old friend Polixenes, the king of Bohemia. Leontes jealously mistakes the courtesy between his wife, Hermione, and Polixenes as a sign of Hermione’s adultery with him. In a fit of jealousy, he attempts to have Polixenes killed, but Polixenes escapes with Camillo, Leontes’ faithful counselor, whom Leontes…

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