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Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
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The Winters Tale explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeares last plays, revealing alchemical symbols, myths, and topoi. It also discusses the alchemical significance of water and time and the healing role of women. The book provides an in-depth survey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages, contending that the play glorifies King Jamess conciliatory attitude.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 377 pages
Publication date: 07 October 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
The Winters Tale by Shakespeare explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in its plot. A perusal of Renaissance alchemy reveals that the play is imbued with various topoi, myths, and emblematic symbols from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. It also discusses the alchemical significance of water and time in the plays circular and regenerative pattern and the healing role of women. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in the play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the filius philosophorum, and the rex chymicus. The 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 Winters Tale glorifies King James's conciliatory attitude by symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rotaalchemica and emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord.
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031051692
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022
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