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

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303105167X
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Book Synopsis Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale by : Martina Zamparo

Download or read book Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale written by Martina Zamparo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Shakespeare, Alchemy and the Creative Imagination

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107782759
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare, Alchemy and the Creative Imagination by : Margaret Healy

Download or read book Shakespeare, Alchemy and the Creative Imagination written by Margaret Healy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's sonnets and A Lover's Complaint constitute a rich tapestry of rhetorical play about Renaissance love in all its guises. A significant strand of this spiritual alchemy is working the 'metal' of the mind through meditation on love, memory work and intense imagination. Healy demonstrates how this process of anguished soul work - construed as essential to inspired poetic making - is woven into these poems, accounting for their most enigmatic imagery and urgency of tone. The esoteric philosophy of late Renaissance Neoplatonic alchemy, which embraced bawdy sexual symbolism and was highly fashionable in European intellectual circles, facilitated Shakespeare's poetry. Arguing that Shakespeare's incorporation of alchemical textures throughout his late works is indicative of an artistic stance promoting religious toleration and unity, this book sets out a crucial new framework for interpreting the 1609 poems and transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's art.

Alchemy & Alchemists

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Publisher : Oldacastle Books
ISBN 13 : 1842435388
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (424 download)

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Book Synopsis Alchemy & Alchemists by : Sean Martin

Download or read book Alchemy & Alchemists written by Sean Martin and published by Oldacastle Books. This book was released on 2006-11-24 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchemy has traditionally been viewed as 'the history of an error', an example of medieval gullibility and greed, in which alchemists tried to turn lead into gold, create fabulous wealth and find the elixir of life. But alchemy has also been described as 'the mightiest secret that a man can possess', and it obsessed the likes of Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, and many of the founders of modern science. This book explores the history of the so-called Royal Art, from its mysterious beginnings in Egypt and China, through the Hellenistic world and the early years of Islam and into mediaeval Europe. Some of the greatest minds of the Middle Ages, figures such as Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, and Thomas Aquinas were drawn to alchemy, and legendary alchemists such as Nicholas Flamel were thought to have actually succeeded in finding The Philosopher's Stone. During the Renaissance, Paracelsus and his followers helped revolutionize medicine, and during the seventeenth century, alchemy played a major role in paving the way for modern science. During the twentieth century, it became a focus of interest for the psychologist Carl Jung and his followers, who believed that the alchemists had discovered the unconscious. In this fully revised edition, Sean Martin has expanded the sections on Chinese and Indian alchemy and has added new material on the relationship between alchemy and early modern science, while also making a fresh assessment of this most enduringly mysterious and fascinating of subjects, to which all others have been described as 'child's play'.

The Alchemy Reader

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521796620
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (966 download)

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Book Synopsis The Alchemy Reader by : Stanton J. Linden

Download or read book The Alchemy Reader written by Stanton J. Linden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale by : William Shakespeare

Download or read book Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare The Winter's Tale

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare The Winter's Tale by : William Shakespeare

Download or read book Shakespeare The Winter's Tale written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317290674
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Book Synopsis Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama by : Nandini Das

Download or read book Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama written by Nandini Das and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with the instabilities of ‘enchanted’ and ‘disenchanted’ practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the world’s ordinary functioning might be said to be ‘enchanted’, is the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its translation to theatre? We have a received historical narrative of disenchantment as a large-scale early modern cultural process, inexorable in character, consisting of the substitution of a rationally understood and controllable world for one containing substantial areas of mystery. Early modern cultural change, however, involves transpositions, recreations, or fresh inventions of the enchanted, and not only its replacement in diminished or denatured form. This collection is centrally concerned with what happens in theatre, as a medium which can give power to experiences of wonder as well as circumscribe and curtail them, addressing plays written for the popular stage that contribute to and reflect significant contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and cognitive practice. The volume uses the idea of dis-enchantment/re-enchantment as a central hub to bring multiple perspectives to bear on early modern conceptualizations and theatricalizations of wonder, the sacred, and the supernatural from different vantage points, marking a significant contribution to studies of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, and natural philosophy in Shakespeare and early modern drama.

The Winter's Tale

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486113078
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Book Synopsis The Winter's Tale by : William Shakespeare

Download or read book The Winter's Tale written by William Shakespeare and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running an emotional gamut from betrayal and broken hearts to romance and reconciliation, this 1611 tragicomedy begins with the tyrannical actions of a jealous king, whose baseless suspicions destroy his own family.

The Works of Shakespeare

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (153 download)

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Book Synopsis The Works of Shakespeare by : William Shakespeare

Download or read book The Works of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cauda Pavonis

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored

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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465514511
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Book Synopsis Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored by : Archibald Cockren

Download or read book Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored written by Archibald Cockren and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1940 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale by : Norman Thomas Carrington

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Rumpelstiltskin’s Secret

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351204149
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Book Synopsis Rumpelstiltskin’s Secret by : Harry Rand

Download or read book Rumpelstiltskin’s Secret written by Harry Rand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows Rumpelstiltskin's story—or thinks they do. We heard it as children. We might affectionately remember the adult voices reciting the tale or recall the light in the room and the time of day when we enjoyed hearing this scripted performance. A grown-up's voice added roughness and pitch to mimic the characters, to murmur tension-filled passages, to pause drawing out the suspense between the Queen's guesses. Maybe the storyteller's voice finally rose to exult when shouting the discovered name or, drawing close, whispered it malevolently. Those long-ago readers intended to enchant us, sometimes to put us to sleep, and for a while we delighted in this magical performance. Then we grew up: obligated to attend to an adult's endless travails, we forgot little Rumpelstiltskin. But he eventually returned. Years later we told this story to our children joining a parade of generations stretching back—no one knows how far. We voluntarily enrolled in a long procession that greys toward the back of the line, blurred, nameless, and wispy before the figures pale translucent and finally become invisible. We became merely the foremost reciters of a tale whose narration enrolled us in a club whose rules we think we know, but don't really. This tale may count among the world's oldest dirty jokes. The punchline misplaced, over time its wickedly funny insights about adult life passed for childish nonsense.

The Winter's Tale

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ISBN 13 : 9781692456177
Total Pages : 112 pages
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Book Synopsis The Winter's Tale by : William Shakespeare

Download or read book The Winter's Tale written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in the First Folio of 1623, William Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" is a play which has been classified by some critics as a comedy and by others as a romance. The confusion arises out of the fact that the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama while the last two acts provide a comedic and happy ending. At the outset of the play we are introduced to two childhood friends, Leontes, King of Sicilia, and Polixenes, the King of Bohemia, who has travelled to Sicilia to visit his old friend. After several months of joyful reunion, Polixenes yearns to return home to attend to his affairs and see his son. Leontes however doesn't wish to see his friend go and implores his wife, Queen Hermione, to try and convince him to stay. Hermione easily convinces Polixenes, which should make Leontes happy, but instead arises suspicion that the two may be engaged in an affair considering how quickly Hermione is able to change Polixenes' mind. The jealousy of Leontes sets in motion a series of events which threaten to ruin his entire kingdom and legacy. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper, includes a preface and annotations by Henry N. Hudson, and an introduction by Charles Harold Herford.

The Works of Shakespeare

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Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis The Works of Shakespeare by : William Shakespeare

Download or read book The Works of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeares Last Plays

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136354174
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book Shakespeares Last Plays written by F.A. Yates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Shakespeare's Play of The Winter's Tale

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 105 pages
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Download or read book Shakespeare's Play of The Winter's Tale written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: