What have you learnt about the following characters in Act One, Camillo; Hermione; Polixenes?
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What have you learnt about the following characters in Act One, Camillo; Hermione; Polixenes? Camillo Act 1 Scene 1 begins with a conversation between Archidamus and Camillo. They are talking in prose which shows conversational tone thus showing that Camillo is not a character of extremely high status, like his King Leontes for example. Camillo has clearly not recently become a Lord of Sicilia as he knows a great deal about the relationship between Leontes and Polixenes Since their more mature dignities and royal necessities made separation of their society, their encounters, though not personal, have been royally attorneyed with interchange of gifts, letters, loving embassies, that they have seemed to be together, though absent; shook hands, as over a vest; and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. Camillo realises that the two are very geographically far apart so, practically speaking they cannot constantly be in contact however they...

