Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale

Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale

Zamparo, Martina

Springer International Publishing AG

10/2022

377

Dura

Inglês

9783031051661

15 a 20 dias

647

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1. Introduction.- PART I. "Emperors, kings and princes desired this science". Elizabethan and Jacobean England.- 2. Alchemy in Elizabethan England.- 3. Alchemy and Paracelsianism at the Jacobean Court.- PART II. The Alchemical Performance of The Winter's Tale. A Reading of the Play.- 4. Leontes's tale of winter.- 5. Water and Time.- 6. Art and Nature.- 7. The Statue Scene.- PART III. Jacobean Politics and Religion in the Play.- 8. The Winter's Tale and James I.- 9. Conclusions.
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Literature, Science and Medicine Studies;Shakespeare;alchemy;Renaissance literature;history of ideas;art history;iconography