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. |
Contents
Detail from the Denny Tomb at Waltham Abbey | 1 |
Shakespeares portrait of the individual | 31 |
metamorphic art | 55 |
The Algate sic from Thomas Delaune The Present | 59 |
beguiling art | 85 |
Fresco by Giulio Romano from the stufetta | 98 |
Giulio Romano Albertina Vienna H16 58 248C | 107 |
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