Collection(s) : Collection CNED-PUF
Paru le 13/11/2010 | Broché 205 pages
Public motivé
The spider and the statue
Poisoned innocence in The Winter's Tale
Much maligned and disfigured over the centuries, Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale has become a treasure-trove for actors, directors and critics alike, attracted by the play's curious blend of tragedy, comedy and pastoral, in a two-part structure separated by sixteen years-and a bear.
From Leontes' jealous frenzy, represented by some of the most obscure passages in Shakespeare, to Perdita's fabled speech on art and nature, or Hermione's statue, the play illustrates the magical power of poiesis, while probing into the human condition.
Discussing the play's key issues, notably the relevance of genre and performance, context and reception, time and truth, eloquence, innocence, knowledge, diversion and recreation, this book provides a useful theoretical, historical and critical background to perform close, personal readings of The Winter's Tale, using both stage and text-centered criticism.
Yan Brailowsky is lecturer in Early Modern Literature and History at the University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. He is the author of a book on King Lear (2008) and has co-edited Language and Otherness in Renaissance Culture (2008), and Le Bannissement et l'exil en Europe aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles (2010).
