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Asimov’s Guide To Shakespear. Volume 1The Clown comes along, on his way to buy things for the great sheepshearing festival that is about to take place. Autolycus promptly pretends to have been robbed and beaten by a rogue, and the kindly Clown, helping him, has his pocket picked as a reward. … but Flora Back at the shepherd's cottage, Perdita, now a beautiful girl of sixteen, is the mistress of the feast and is dressed accordingly. Prince Florizel, overcome by her beauty, says to her: These your unusual weeds to each part of you Do give a life; no shepherdess, but Flora, Peering in April's front. —Act IV, scene iv, lines 1-3 Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers and the spring. Her festival was celebrated at the end of April and the beginning of May. … the green Neptune But Perdita is very nervous. Florizel stumbled upon her father's house when pursuing an escaped falcon and has fallen in love with her. Now he is attending the feast dressed as a shepherd and calling himself Doricles. Perdita fears his father the King will find him out and be furious ...» |
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