Author: Martina Zamparo
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303105167X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with several topoi, myths, and emblematic symbols coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. It also discusses the alchemical significance of water and time in the play’s circular and regenerative pattern and the healing role of women. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in Shakespeare’s play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the filius philosophorum, and the so-called rex chymicus. This book also provides an in-depth survey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Importantly, it contends that The Winter’s Tale, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rota alchemica and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James’s conciliatory attitude.
Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
Author: Martina Zamparo
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303105167X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with several topoi, myths, and emblematic symbols coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. It also discusses the alchemical significance of water and time in the play’s circular and regenerative pattern and the healing role of women. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in Shakespeare’s play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the filius philosophorum, and the so-called rex chymicus. This book also provides an in-depth survey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Importantly, it contends that The Winter’s Tale, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rota alchemica and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James’s conciliatory attitude.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303105167X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with several topoi, myths, and emblematic symbols coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. It also discusses the alchemical significance of water and time in the play’s circular and regenerative pattern and the healing role of women. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in Shakespeare’s play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the filius philosophorum, and the so-called rex chymicus. This book also provides an in-depth survey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Importantly, it contends that The Winter’s Tale, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rota alchemica and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James’s conciliatory attitude.
The winter's tale
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Winter's Tale
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387008589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387008589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Shakespeare The Winter's Tale
The Winter's Tale
Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
The Winter's Tale
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale
Author: Norman Thomas Carrington
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description