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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... claim that a remarkable homogeneity in the creative ambience of the period most assuredly assisted the cross ... claims for artistic life under James I are wildly ahistorical , and distort Shakespeare's ambience . Perhaps more crucially ...
... claim that a remarkable homogeneity in the creative ambience of the period most assuredly assisted the cross ... claims for artistic life under James I are wildly ahistorical , and distort Shakespeare's ambience . Perhaps more crucially ...
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... claims , combine words and images in a way which strains attention in order to depict the internal states of ' individual minds at moments of intensity ' ( pp . 28-9 ) . This claim , suitable for theatrical testing , seems to me far ...
... claims , combine words and images in a way which strains attention in order to depict the internal states of ' individual minds at moments of intensity ' ( pp . 28-9 ) . This claim , suitable for theatrical testing , seems to me far ...
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... claim of men to their wives . If so they might arise most readily in societies where marriage ties are not secure for men . Seeing in contemporary husbands increasing ' anxiety to lay claim to their wives ' , Douglas predicts that ...
... claim of men to their wives . If so they might arise most readily in societies where marriage ties are not secure for men . Seeing in contemporary husbands increasing ' anxiety to lay claim to their wives ' , Douglas predicts that ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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