Art and Illusion in The Winter's TaleManchester University Press, 1994 - 283 pages This work treats a single Shakespeare play from a number of perspectives. The author combines insights from contemporary psychology with art, social and stage histories to challenge the limits of current positivist critical theories. The book also has a central theme: how the dark side of art and illusion must be represented in order to establish the redemptive pattern which The Winter's Tale shares with Shakespeare's other late tragi-comedies. |
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Page 33
... Leontes ' mental aberration . The first symptoms of Leontes ' illness The first evidence of aberration in Leontes ' behaviour arises when Hermione , perhaps in an effort to alleviate his sulky or louring mood , induces him to recall the ...
... Leontes ' mental aberration . The first symptoms of Leontes ' illness The first evidence of aberration in Leontes ' behaviour arises when Hermione , perhaps in an effort to alleviate his sulky or louring mood , induces him to recall the ...
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... Leontes . This time Polixenes redupli- cates Leontes ' emotional complex when , threatened with frustration of his plan to use Camillo in a family ploy , he spitefully repudiates the benefits he formerly received from him . Thus he ...
... Leontes . This time Polixenes redupli- cates Leontes ' emotional complex when , threatened with frustration of his plan to use Camillo in a family ploy , he spitefully repudiates the benefits he formerly received from him . Thus he ...
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... Leontes responds to his internal ' sprites and goblins ' with destructive obsessions followed by years of deathlike asceticism . Unlike Mamillius , Leontes cannot endure the anxiety arising in the imaginative work necessary for ...
... Leontes responds to his internal ' sprites and goblins ' with destructive obsessions followed by years of deathlike asceticism . Unlike Mamillius , Leontes cannot endure the anxiety arising in the imaginative work necessary for ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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