Monstrous to our human reason. The empty grave of the Winter’s tale
The Winter’s Tale is haunted by the fear that its ending is as ‘monstrous to our human reason’ as it would be for a deceased man ‘to break his grave / And come again’. Thus Leontes imagines a dead Hermione might ‘possess her corpse, and on this stage… appear soul-vexed’, and Paulina warns that ‘the...
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/2348 |
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