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Karteikarten von Daisy Lovick, aktualisiert more than 1 year ago
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| Frage | Antworten |
| John Dryden | The play lacked "vigour and maturity" - it was "grounded in impossibilities" |
| 18th century critics | Ignored the first half of the play - only performed the latter |
| William Hazlitt | Enjoyed the "romantic sweetness, the comic humour" |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge (on Leontes' jealousy) | "an excitability by the most inadequate causes... a sense of shame of his own feelings" |
| E.M.W Tilyard | Saw the play as having distinct planes of reality - "the different planes on which human life can be lived" |
| Herman Northrop Frye | Came up with the idea that the play is structured around seasons - moving from winter to spring with the promise of summer romance |
| Herman Northrop Frye (on the play's ending) | "It is the world symbolized by nature's power of renewal" |
| S. L. Bethell | Had a Christian reading of the play - Shakespeare was exploring sin, repentance and reconciliation |
| G. Wilson Knight | Believed the play was a mix of Christian, pagan, and naturalistic influences |
| J. I. M. Stewart | Introduced a psychoanalytical view - the play is "most massive below the surface" |
| J. I. M. Stewart (on Leontes' jealousy) | Believes it is Leontes' repressed sexual feelings towards Polixenes - he is "consciously unable to entertain the thought" |
| Stephen Reid | Leontes projects his affections for Polixenes through Perdita's marriage to Florizel |
| Bill Overton (on Perdita, Paulina and Hermione) | "Three female roles of the first significance" |
| Carol Thomas Neely | Leontes and Polixenes' "oppressive misogny" are responsible for the "static, barren, masculine world" |
| McGuire | "the focus is not on the genesis and growth of... jealousy, but on its effects and repurcussions" |
| Jane Smiley | "Shakespeare wrote The Winter's Tale to answer King Lear's tragedy with hope" |
| Jane Smiley | "Leontes lives to regret and rethink his early selfish definition of love" |
| Winthrop Ames' 1910 New York production | Leontes and Polixenes were dressed identically - "mirror images of each other" |
| S.H. Mendelson (on Hermione's death) | People in Shakespeare's time believed "parents suffered such deep grief that they could die themselves" |
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