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 24
... speech , begging permission for an immediate departure from Leontes ' court , hints are conveyed of several topics and motifs centrally important to the play , but not concerning Polixenes himself . The speech reveals an inexplicable ...
... speech , begging permission for an immediate departure from Leontes ' court , hints are conveyed of several topics and motifs centrally important to the play , but not concerning Polixenes himself . The speech reveals an inexplicable ...
Page 25
... speech in no way connected with Polixenes ' own concerns , he gives a pseudo - philosophical justification for Leontes ' still invisible , and only possibly mounting , sexual disgust . In this speech Polixenes identifies original sin ...
... speech in no way connected with Polixenes ' own concerns , he gives a pseudo - philosophical justification for Leontes ' still invisible , and only possibly mounting , sexual disgust . In this speech Polixenes identifies original sin ...
Page 137
... speech we find several useful to re- duce lust , others that cure snake bites , and others useful to prevent unfruitful nocturnal emissions of genital ' seed ' . The sexual ambiva- lence evident here is reflected on another plane also ...
... speech we find several useful to re- duce lust , others that cure snake bites , and others useful to prevent unfruitful nocturnal emissions of genital ' seed ' . The sexual ambiva- lence evident here is reflected on another plane also ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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