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 20
... evidence scorn of the genre generally but only of particular failures . Nor is there any evidence that Shakespeare's impresa was one of those calling forth Wotton's remark . The point of an impresa was that it should be both difficult ...
... evidence scorn of the genre generally but only of particular failures . Nor is there any evidence that Shakespeare's impresa was one of those calling forth Wotton's remark . The point of an impresa was that it should be both difficult ...
Page 86
... evidence of conflict in his artistic life . There is hardly any trace at all , in fact , of his letters , manuscripts , commonplace books , diaries , marginalia , ideology- revealing popular fictions , controversial pamphlets ...
... evidence of conflict in his artistic life . There is hardly any trace at all , in fact , of his letters , manuscripts , commonplace books , diaries , marginalia , ideology- revealing popular fictions , controversial pamphlets ...
Page 87
... evidence . Although , to our misfortune , reams of Shakespeare's private letters or diaries may have been recycled by a fishmonger rather than a preserving bookbinder , the uniform non - survival of all recorded expressions of his ...
... evidence . Although , to our misfortune , reams of Shakespeare's private letters or diaries may have been recycled by a fishmonger rather than a preserving bookbinder , the uniform non - survival of all recorded expressions of his ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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