Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare's The winter's tale / Martina Zamparo.
Zamparo, Martina, author.
2022
PR2839
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Title
Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare's The winter's tale / Martina Zamparo.
Author
Zamparo, Martina, author.
ISBN
9783031051678 (electronic bk.)
303105167X (electronic bk.)
9783031051661
3031051661
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05167-8
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 377 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-05167-8 doi
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PR2839
Dewey Decimal Classification
822.3/3
Summary
This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeares last plays, The Winters 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 Shakespeares 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 Winters Tale, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rota alchemica and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King Jamess conciliatory attitude.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 17, 2022).
Series
Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine. 2634-6443
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Print version: 9783031051661
Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare's The winter's tale.
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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 Winters Tale. A Reading of the Play
4. Leontess 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 Winters Tale and James I
9. Conclusions. .

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