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Witchcraft And Wonder In The Winter's Tale, Kirby Farrell Dec 2007

Witchcraft And Wonder In The Winter's Tale, Kirby Farrell

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The Winter’s Tale is constructed to generate an experience of wonder as Hermione’s statue comes to life. Audiences are meant to share what Leontes calls “The pleasure of that madness” (5.3.73). This revelatory madness is magical undoing: it dissolves the paranoid paroxysm at the outset of the play that crystallizes ideas about witchcraft, even as Hermione's play death and "resurrection" purge her of associations with witches.


Play, Death, And Apotheosis, Kirby Farrell Prof Dec 1987

Play, Death, And Apotheosis, Kirby Farrell Prof

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This chapter develops the argument in "Self-Effacement and Autonomy in Sx," extending it to fantasies of apotheosis in the poems and plays.