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 69
... reminder that she has lost all the years of her child's growing . Leontes likewise in regaining his family sees that he has destroyed all the pleasures of his life for sixteen years . Hermione's wrinkles write the passage of time ...
... reminder that she has lost all the years of her child's growing . Leontes likewise in regaining his family sees that he has destroyed all the pleasures of his life for sixteen years . Hermione's wrinkles write the passage of time ...
Page 152
... remind Leontes of his guilt but also demands that he should give her absolute control over his manhood , symbolised by the power to decide when and whom he may marry . Of course this power is necessary for Paulina's plot , to prevent ...
... remind Leontes of his guilt but also demands that he should give her absolute control over his manhood , symbolised by the power to decide when and whom he may marry . Of course this power is necessary for Paulina's plot , to prevent ...
Page 236
... reminding the king of what he should forget ( III , ii , 225 ) but immedi- ately reminds him thrice , and continues to do so ' . We may be re- minded of Charlie Chaplin's advice on the comic power of trebly repeated actions . On ...
... reminding the king of what he should forget ( III , ii , 225 ) but immedi- ately reminds him thrice , and continues to do so ' . We may be re- minded of Charlie Chaplin's advice on the comic power of trebly repeated actions . On ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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