Overview
Character Name
Polixenes
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Voice
Spoken
Time & Place
sicilia and bohemia, flexible time period
Analysis
Polixenes is the childhood best friend of Leontes, and the king of Bohemia. He is often cast as a strong, possibly flirtatious and sexually virulent man, whom Leontes would believably be jealous of. Though he comes nowhere near Leontes’ misguided rage and jealousy, he has
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