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 155
... witchcraft . Here we come to a topical and local issue that has overtones bear- ing not only on the image of Paulina's magic but also on the central question in The Winter's Tale of what artifices may be used to ' good ' ends . The ...
... witchcraft . Here we come to a topical and local issue that has overtones bear- ing not only on the image of Paulina's magic but also on the central question in The Winter's Tale of what artifices may be used to ' good ' ends . The ...
Page 156
... witchcraft ' [ e.g. William Perkins , A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft , 1608 ] . . . On the other hand , there were those who wished to differentiate ' good ' and ' bad ' witches by their effects , and ' witches ' and ...
... witchcraft ' [ e.g. William Perkins , A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft , 1608 ] . . . On the other hand , there were those who wished to differentiate ' good ' and ' bad ' witches by their effects , and ' witches ' and ...
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... witchcraft is from Reginald Scott's sceptical The Discovery of Witchcraft , 1584 , Scott , Reginald , 1973 , p . 5 . 36 As described , together with age and physical deformities , as indicative of witchcraft in John Gaule , Select Cases ...
... witchcraft is from Reginald Scott's sceptical The Discovery of Witchcraft , 1584 , Scott , Reginald , 1973 , p . 5 . 36 As described , together with age and physical deformities , as indicative of witchcraft in John Gaule , Select Cases ...
Contents
Aesthetic codes and Renaissance concepts | 10 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic | 55 |
Copyright | |
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