Perdita Speaks by Anita BigelowWithin its creaking plot turns (lost princess reappears disguised as shepherdess!) and off stage theatrics (man eaten by bear!), The Winter's Tale contains, as always with Shakespeare, dazzling verbal flashes, one of which is Perdita's description, in Act IV, of Proserpina's spring flowers: lilies, primroses, violetsand daffodils. The daffodils prove surprisingly brave, to "come before the swallow dares," and amazingly powerful, to "take the winds of