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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... argue that Shake- speare's artistically enthusiastic courtiers are made to mis - identify Julio Romano as part of a ... argued in an attempt to demonstrate that a per- vasive theme of The Winter's Tale is the necessity for the dark side ...
... argue that Shake- speare's artistically enthusiastic courtiers are made to mis - identify Julio Romano as part of a ... argued in an attempt to demonstrate that a per- vasive theme of The Winter's Tale is the necessity for the dark side ...
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... argued , as she is perceived in the play the very fact of her beauty raises doubts about her origins and future . Shakespeare's first audiences might have perceived her beauty in a similar dubious way . A range of reasons for this will ...
... argued , as she is perceived in the play the very fact of her beauty raises doubts about her origins and future . Shakespeare's first audiences might have perceived her beauty in a similar dubious way . A range of reasons for this will ...
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... argued coupling of ' the increas- ing prestige of private life ' especially in ' the heroics of marriage ' with the rise of Jacobean stage tragicomedy , see Rose , 1988 , pp . 186–235 . 12 See the classic articles Klein , 1986a ; Klein ...
... argued coupling of ' the increas- ing prestige of private life ' especially in ' the heroics of marriage ' with the rise of Jacobean stage tragicomedy , see Rose , 1988 , pp . 186–235 . 12 See the classic articles Klein , 1986a ; Klein ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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