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

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Title/Author:	Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale / by Martina Zamparo.
Author:	Zamparo, Martina.
Description:	XXI, 377 p. 28 illus., 24 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	European literature—Renaissance, 1450-1600. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05167-8
ISBN:	9783031051678

Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
Zamparo, Martina.

Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale [electronic resource] /by Martina Zamparo. - 1st ed. 2022. - XXI, 377 p. 28 illus., 24 illus. in color.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6443. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,.

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 Winter’s Tale. A Reading of the Play -- 4. Leontes’s 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 Winter’s Tale and James I -- 9. Conclusions. .

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 topoi, myths, and emblematic imagery coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. 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.

ISBN: 9783031051678

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-05167-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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European literature—Renaissance, 1450-1600.

LC Class. No.: PN715-749

Dewey Class. No.: 809.03

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