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 7
... false analogy with social justice . On the contrary , I will argue that certain little - noted images in the play , particularly of art and artistic processes , connect with the live dangers of human misapprehension which constitute its ...
... false analogy with social justice . On the contrary , I will argue that certain little - noted images in the play , particularly of art and artistic processes , connect with the live dangers of human misapprehension which constitute its ...
Page 70
... falsely that her mother is dead but has a remarkable statue.63 Both the false and true portions of these linked reports have often been judged to generate the play's supreme artistic gaffes : the false because it cheats us , and the ...
... falsely that her mother is dead but has a remarkable statue.63 Both the false and true portions of these linked reports have often been judged to generate the play's supreme artistic gaffes : the false because it cheats us , and the ...
Page 89
... false hearsay . We might remember that Shakespeare always disapproved of ' Rumour ' , who as a villainous chorus of 2 Henry IV admits to ' continual slanders ... / Stuffing the ears of men with false reports ' ( Ind . , 6-8 ) . In fact ...
... false hearsay . We might remember that Shakespeare always disapproved of ' Rumour ' , who as a villainous chorus of 2 Henry IV admits to ' continual slanders ... / Stuffing the ears of men with false reports ' ( Ind . , 6-8 ) . In fact ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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