| Description |
1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-252) and index. |
| Contents |
Alchemical contexts -- Lovely boy -- The dark mistress and the art of blackness -- A lover's complaint by William Shake-speare -- Inner looking, alchemy and the creative imagination -- Conclusion: Shakespeare's poetics of love and religious toleration. |
| Summary |
Demonstrating how the lost lexicon of fashionable late Renaissance alchemy imbued Shakespeare's bawdy Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' with spiritual and political meanings, this text transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's art. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Lover's complaint.
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Lover's complaint (Shakespeare, William) |
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Sonnets (Shakespeare, William) |
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Sonnets, English -- History and criticism.
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Sonnets, English. |
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Alchemy in literature.
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Alchemy in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Healy, Margaret, 1955- Shakespeare, alchemy and the creative imagination 9781107004047 (DLC) 2011283172 (OCoLC)711053418 |
| ISBN |
9780511782954 (electronic book) |
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0511782950 (electronic book) |
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9781107784390 (electronic book) |
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1107784395 (electronic book) |
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9781107004047 |
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1107004047 |
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