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 123
... particularly Measure for Measure with its legalistic sexual enigmas . Of course the prime example is Leontes ' sufferings . Also , the deep worries of the good courtiers Dion and Cleomenes portrayed in Act V scene i show personal ...
... particularly Measure for Measure with its legalistic sexual enigmas . Of course the prime example is Leontes ' sufferings . Also , the deep worries of the good courtiers Dion and Cleomenes portrayed in Act V scene i show personal ...
Page 160
... particularly serious treatment in The Winter's Tale , the play more often contrasts with than aligns with contemporary analogues . " 74 72 A particularly vivid contrast can be made with George Chapman's sardonically mordant comedy The ...
... particularly serious treatment in The Winter's Tale , the play more often contrasts with than aligns with contemporary analogues . " 74 72 A particularly vivid contrast can be made with George Chapman's sardonically mordant comedy The ...
Page 186
... particularly interesting existentialist scan- dal discussed in Hellenga , 1976. But I should say scandals , for a great many critics have deplored , and others have defended , the play's many peculiarities in characterisation ...
... particularly interesting existentialist scan- dal discussed in Hellenga , 1976. But I should say scandals , for a great many critics have deplored , and others have defended , the play's many peculiarities in characterisation ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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