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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... means to him . . . which then colors his vision even as it is reported ' , to illustrate how - we oversimplify Shakespeare's theatrical art if we speak of it as merely visual and verbal – i.e. , as if those two categories exclusively ...
... means to him . . . which then colors his vision even as it is reported ' , to illustrate how - we oversimplify Shakespeare's theatrical art if we speak of it as merely visual and verbal – i.e. , as if those two categories exclusively ...
Page 90
... mean the ultimate of the very light artistic touch ' as described and praised in Timon of Athens . The painter and poet ... means of lively depiction , and its effect was only enhanced when the deceit was more evident . The activity of ...
... mean the ultimate of the very light artistic touch ' as described and praised in Timon of Athens . The painter and poet ... means of lively depiction , and its effect was only enhanced when the deceit was more evident . The activity of ...
Page 197
... means by ' what time means and does to man ' ( and slightly misquotes this in his objection ) . Ewbank , in her concept of a ' triumph ' embodied in the paradox , p . 113 , ' time has at last in its triumph brought about its own defeat ...
... means by ' what time means and does to man ' ( and slightly misquotes this in his objection ) . Ewbank , in her concept of a ' triumph ' embodied in the paradox , p . 113 , ' time has at last in its triumph brought about its own defeat ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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