In The Winter’s tale, it opens with two gentlemen, Camillo and Archidamus in Sicilia. Their casual conversation functions as an exposition acknowledges the audience with the juxtapose image of two countries, Bohemia and Sicilia, the relationship between Kings and their past, present and future. First, from Archidamus, the audience is acquainted with the “great difference / betwixt Bohemia and Sicilia.” (1.1.3-4) Sicilia is wealthier than Bohemia as Archidamus said they “cannot with such magnificence,” (1.1.12) he is shamed that Bohemia fails to match the hospitality that Sicilia had offered them. Second, Camillo illustrates the closeness of the kings in childhood as they “rooted betwixt them than such affection / which cannot choose but branch
