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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... suggest that Polixenes ' courtly manners are near the breaking point . ” But the images here also foreshadow matters divergent from Polixenes , such as Leontes ' subsequent obsession with the counting of time , the sublunar mutability ...
... suggest that Polixenes ' courtly manners are near the breaking point . ” But the images here also foreshadow matters divergent from Polixenes , such as Leontes ' subsequent obsession with the counting of time , the sublunar mutability ...
Page 146
... suggested by what both kings most value in him , a kind of discreet , or clandestine , sophis- tication . They find ... suggest the enrolling of Camillo in a Shakespearian character type including Claudius's Polonius , Lear's Gloucester ...
... suggested by what both kings most value in him , a kind of discreet , or clandestine , sophis- tication . They find ... suggest the enrolling of Camillo in a Shakespearian character type including Claudius's Polonius , Lear's Gloucester ...
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... suggests that Aretino himself ' may well have had a hand in ' writing La puttana errante ( The Wandering Whore ) ... suggest that Aretino's mentions of Giulio and Vasari's Vita may have led Shakespeare to his notion of ' that rare ...
... suggests that Aretino himself ' may well have had a hand in ' writing La puttana errante ( The Wandering Whore ) ... suggest that Aretino's mentions of Giulio and Vasari's Vita may have led Shakespeare to his notion of ' that rare ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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