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...officially a fortnight ago. There is a special appropriateness in the choice, too, since a major theme of the play is an apparent demise that leads to renewed life--symbolic of the plight of the AST itself. As the Shepherd says at the very center of the play, "Thou mettest with things dying, I with things new-born...
...THOU METTEST with things dying, I with things new-born!" With this stirring line "The Winter's Tale" shifts from the wintry tragedy of its first part to the vernal romance of its second. Ripping apart the links of that Great Chain of Being with disease and death in the first acts, the play reassembles them with health and life in the last ones. The Loeb Ex version of this mythic renewal breathes life, but not robust good health...
...make whole what Shakespeare halved into tragedy and romance "The Winter's Tale" needs a bit more life than one mettest with...
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