Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare's The winter's tale [electronic resource]
- 作者： Zamparo, Martina.
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- Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine.
- 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- 叢書名： Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine,
- 主題： Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. , Alchemy in literature. , Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. , Drama. , Theatre History. , History of Britain and Ireland. , Medical Humanities. , Visual Culture.
- ISBN： 9783031051678 (electronic bk.) 、 9783031051661 (paper)
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- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: 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.
- 摘要註: 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 topoi, myths, and emblematic imagery coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. 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.
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- 系統號： 005518692 | 機讀編目格式
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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.