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Week 2 – Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” – Hermione’s arrest and defense at trial – The Rehearsal Room [Video, Audio, and Transcript versions]
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</figure>What happened in Week 2?
🏁 In our second week, highlights include:
- Deciding on the beats of the scene – what each is “called”
- Bringing Leontes back to sanity vs. punishing him
- Exploring the meaning of “I’ll keep her in the stables”
Watch the Week 2 Session!
Full transcript included at the bottom of this post.
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</figure>And there’s the audio version too – you still get everything from listening!
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Short on time?
Check out this 60-second clip from Week 2 where Geoffrey, Gideon and Paul discuss Antigonus’ intention with Leontes!
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THE SCENE
Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 1 and Act 3, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale:
- Leontes has Hermione arrested for adultery and treason
- Hermione tries to defend herself in open court
Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here and here.
The Winter’s Tale Team – we have artists in LA, San Diego, Philly, and New York!
- DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Wade
- DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport
- LEONTES: Christopher Guilmet
- HERMIONE: Shannone Lee Clair
- ANTIGONUS: J. Paul Nicholas
Read more about the artists here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare:
- Appreciating Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated
- Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline
And there’s more!
Catch up on our other workshops featuring lots of Shakespeare scenes, from Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, Midsummer, As You Like It, and our Twelfth Night repertory extravaganza – all on the podcast and YouTube. If you’ve missed any presentations thus far, click here to find them all.
Shannon
And a quick reminder, if anyone, I’m leaving early today.
Geoffrey
Yes. That’s just, that’s what I was just about to get into. Shannon has to leave us a little early full screen and it’s 6, 6 20, you have to go, is that right? Yes.
So, so to that end, I would actually, since Poor Hermin has to wait all the way through these scenes all the time. Anyway, I’m, I’d like to start with your stuff and then we’ll go back because we, when we were last week, we got through your section as I recall.</p
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