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Welcome to Part 5 of our discussion of the winner's tale and parts 5 and 6 we will be discussing

Acts 4 and 5. so we just got done discussing act three and some of the action

with Hermione and Paulina noted that they use language in a different and more persuasive way and talked

a little bit about the concept of evidence and the oracle and all that stuff.

And now we are going to get a very different scene.

I guess at the end, we already moved to the desert.

The end of Act 3, we moved to the desert of Bohemia. But now we're going to fast forward 16 years and

Shakespeare will directly apologize to us for that for just taking a big shortcut there and having well I guess his shortcut is the way

he handles this is to have the personification of time come out and tell us that he's going to be sliding over 16 years.

Time begs forgiveness and essentially says, but think about it, I am so powerful I can overthrow law and custom.

You know, laws change, customs change over time. Time is powerful enough.

In other words, I'm going to apologize for this trick of fast-forwarding, but as the

personification of time, I can do that.

It's a very funny way of excusing himself by personifying time.

If only Shakespeare were a screenwriter, he could just say,

here is a title card that says 16 years later, something like that.

Instead he has to do this whole song and dance.

I guess he could have had someone come out with a card.

Is there a way to do this without that?

How would you clue the audience?

And it would probably emerge on a merge from context?

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