The Winter's Tale | Perdita (Character Analysis)

Perdita is the daughter of Hermione and Leontes, born while her mother was held in prison at the direction of Perdita's father who thought Hermione an adulteress and Perdita a bastard. Her name means "the lost one," a name given to her by Antigonus after Hermione had appeared to him in a dream, instructing him to do so. Antigonus, on the orders of Leontes, left Perdita in the barren wilds of Bohemia where she was discovered and raised by an old shepherd. Perdita displays a beauty and grace that belies her homely origins. When Polixenes complains that his son, Florizel, spends too...

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