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 18
... relation to erroneous and distorted percep- tions , and near the end they cluster again mainly in relation to clarified sight . However , repeatedly throughout the play , the audience is obliged to rely on verbal reports of crucial ...
... relation to erroneous and distorted percep- tions , and near the end they cluster again mainly in relation to clarified sight . However , repeatedly throughout the play , the audience is obliged to rely on verbal reports of crucial ...
Page 27
... relationship which a highly trained analyst may feel and interpret . Yet I would claim that these impossibilities do not ... relation to Leontes ' jealousy has already received many incisive psychological interpretations . Not in ...
... relationship which a highly trained analyst may feel and interpret . Yet I would claim that these impossibilities do not ... relation to Leontes ' jealousy has already received many incisive psychological interpretations . Not in ...
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... relation to the prominence of hands in play at large . Autolycus and the language of hands In one of the soliloquies of Shakespeare's cut - purse extraordinary we are told that the country folk were so enthralled by the song he ...
... relation to the prominence of hands in play at large . Autolycus and the language of hands In one of the soliloquies of Shakespeare's cut - purse extraordinary we are told that the country folk were so enthralled by the song he ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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