The Winters Tale Audiobook (Free)

King Leontes of Sicilia is seized by sudden and terrible jealousy of his wife Hermione, whom he accuses of adultery. He thinks the child Hermione is certainly bearing was fathered by his friend Polixenes, so when the baby woman is born he orders her to be taken to some wild place and still left to pass away. Though Hermione’s child escapes death, Leontes’ cruelty has terrible consequences. Loss paves just how for reunion, and existence and wish are given birth to out of desolation and despair.

One of the past due romances in Shakespeare’s cannon, this complex work is at situations tragic, sometimes humorous, but always entertaining and enlightening.

Sinead Cusack has Hermione, and Ciaran Hinda has Leontes. Eileen Atkins is normally Paulina and Paul Jesson can be Polixenes. Period the Chorus is played by Sir John Gielgud.