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- Title
"PREPARE TO SEE THE LIFE AS LIVELY MOCK'D AS EVER": READING SHAKESPEARE'S ТHE WINTER'S TALE AS A SENSORIAL EXPERIENCE.
- Authors
Percec, Dana N.; Șerban, Andreea L.
- Abstract
THe Winter's Tale is one of the most fairy-tale-like plays written by Shakespeare and one of the most difficult to stage. The history of its adaptation and appropriation bears evidence of how challenging it is to give a quantifiable dimension to the sense of wonder which derives, in this play, from topography and body language, aspects affecting the characters'/actors' and the readers'/spectators' perception of "reality". The paper focuses on the way in which the climax of the play (the family's reunion in a multi-functional room of the royal palace, in front of a breathing statue of the queen) is rendered in certain contemporary revisitations: Jeanette Winterson's 2016 novel, The Gap of Time, a rewriting of the Shakespearean romance to celebrate the Bard's quadricentennial, as well as a selection of recent theatrical productions.
- Subjects
SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; WINTERSON, Jeanette, 1959-; BODY language; FAMILY reunions; READING; BROADWAY theatrical productions; PLAYWRITING; EXPERIENCE; ROMANCE fiction
- Publication
Nasleđe, 2019, Issue 43, p277
- ISSN
1820-1768
- Publication type
Article