Art And Illusion In The Winter's Tale

Synopsis

An investigation of some of the more obvious and some of the time- occluded aspects of a much-studied play in terms of what was aesthetically "readable" to Jacobean culture. The study places present-day notions of The Winter's Tale as an ill-made play in the context of what might have been exciting or intriguing to an original audience. A pervasive theme of the play, the author finds, is the necessity for the dark side of human creativity. Extensive (23- page) bibliography. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.