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Okay, welcome to part four of our discussion of the winner's tale.

We just got done discussing Act 1.

Now we're ready to rock it through Act 2.

We'll see.

Although I think the beginning of Act 2 is going to be a lot,

and then it really picks up.

But, yeah, so now we get to the point which we've discussed that I think we've already

discussed it a bit which is the interaction between Mamelius and his mother mother,

who I take to be in part at least his nannies.

Suggestive,

it's sexually suggestive, and then we get the part about the, his mom

asking for the tail and him saying a sad tale's best for winner.

There's a number of references internal to the play to this

concept of a winter's tale or an old wives tale. One of them comes up when some, I think some gentlemen say later on that

the recovery of Pradita will sound implausible. It's like an old wife's tale. The bear, the fact that

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