Postured like a whore? Misreading Hermione's statue

This article responds to Harold Bloom's call to ‘read for the clinamen’– an author's creative misprision of, or characteristic divergence from, the work of a literary antecedent – offering an account of Shakespeare's deviation from a number of influential or source texts in his The Winter's Tale . From Ovid's tale of Pygmalion to Marston's Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image ; from Greene's Pandosto to Aretino's Sixteen Postures , I demonstrate how Shakespeare evokes then revokes these precursory texts, swerving from the potentially malign influence of his predecessors. Discussion concludes in analysis of the critical and intertextual over‐determination of the statue scene

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