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- Title
WHAT THE WINTER'S TALE UNVEILS: WHO IS `THE BEST'?
- Authors
Fleissner, Robert F.
- Abstract
The article highlights that although William Shakespeare avoided in his last plays a too deliberate use of Christian symbolism, need "the Best" refer point-blank to Christ. Best is spelt with a capital letter in the Folio, whereas in point of fact numerous Folio common nouns, including several in this immediate context, are likewise capitalized. Such upper-class treatment, moreover, may have been the compositor's idiosyncrasy and so need not tell what Shakespeare himself wanted. The few unique allusion to formal Christianity in the Bohemian romance scarcely support the candidacy of Judas.
- Subjects
SYMBOLISM; NOUNS; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; CHRISTIANITY; ALLUSIONS; LITERARY style
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1989, Vol 36, Issue 3, p336
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/36-3-336