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 65
... audience , one wonders , could have grasped more than a small frac- tion of these workings of faction ? An audience , one suspects , consist- ing primarily of Miss Yateses . Amid the sarcastic sexism of this commentary , it does suggest ...
... audience , one wonders , could have grasped more than a small frac- tion of these workings of faction ? An audience , one suspects , consist- ing primarily of Miss Yateses . Amid the sarcastic sexism of this commentary , it does suggest ...
Page 187
B. J. Sokol. Shakespearian audience of 1611 on account of an equally palpable awareness of art that was ' up to date ... audience would have detected as we do ' vagueness and confusion ' , or even impenetrable ' obscurity ' , in some of ...
B. J. Sokol. Shakespearian audience of 1611 on account of an equally palpable awareness of art that was ' up to date ... audience would have detected as we do ' vagueness and confusion ' , or even impenetrable ' obscurity ' , in some of ...
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... audience ' , but argues passim that even such an audience is given clues throughout the play that Hermione may live . 32 Wilson , John Dover , 1953 , p . 3 , denies that a theatre audience may ' read ' backwards : ' the fundamental fact ...
... audience ' , but argues passim that even such an audience is given clues throughout the play that Hermione may live . 32 Wilson , John Dover , 1953 , p . 3 , denies that a theatre audience may ' read ' backwards : ' the fundamental fact ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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