Speech Versus Spectacle
Autolycus, Class and Containment in The Winter's Tale
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16348284 |
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| Authors | Ronald W Cooley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 5-23 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance and Reformation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-429X • E-ISSN: 2293-7374 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33137/rr.v33i3.11356 |
| OpenAlex | W2738326542 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Shakespeare's Winter's Tale is a play in which theatrical spectacle triumphs over speech, as stage action obscures the incoherence of verbal representation. This paper identifies Autolycus as a composite of Jacobean anxieties about the sources of social instability, and explores his place in this dramatic process. The spectacular techniques of containment that reconcile all the other characters do not quite work on the sturdy rogue. He embodies the failure of Jacobean England's historical attempt, and the play's dramatic attempt, to assimilate those it has defined as unassimilable
Art · Containment (computer programming · Literature · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Spectacle · Computer Science · History · Law · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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