IMAGINED REBELLION: WHAT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THE WINTER'S TALE

• Authors: Claire T. Guéron
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale features a pattern of violent rebellion that only just fails to happen. Such moments of near-rebellion, best interpreted through the play’s master trope of the moving statue, constitute an exploration of the causes of political rebellion and how best to avert it. Thanks to the close integration of its romance aesthetics and political realism, The Winter’s Tale can be read as a “Mirror for Kings”.

Keywords

EN

counsel; ekphrasis; rebellion; statue; tyranny

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 52-67

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2014-02-14

Contributors

author

Claire T. Guéron

• University of Burgundy, Dijon, France Maison de l’université Esplanade Erasme - 21000 Dijon, France

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/genst-2013-0004