The Natural Work of Art The Experience of Romance in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale |
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Author:
| Williams, John Anthony |
Series title: | LeBaron Russell Briggs Prize Honors Essays in English Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-60450-6 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1967 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $14.50 |
Book Description:
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Viewing Shakespearean romance as a poetic response to the metaphysical problems of "mutability" and man's place in nature, the author has selected
The Winter's Tale to illustrate his hypothesis. His critical study--from a perspective gained through comparative references to a large number of works by other Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights--rejects the traditional notion that Shakespeare deliberately created a fantasy world in which the happy ending signified an escape from...
More DescriptionViewing Shakespearean romance as a poetic response to the metaphysical problems of "mutability" and man's place in nature, the author has selected The Winter's Tale to illustrate his hypothesis. His critical study--from a perspective gained through comparative references to a large number of works by other Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights--rejects the traditional notion that Shakespeare deliberately created a fantasy world in which the happy ending signified an escape from reality and interprets the tone of the romance in terms of an all-encompassing vision in which time and change are accepted as life-fulfilling forces.