{"product_id":"alchemy-paracelsianism-and-shakespeares-the-winters-tale-9783031051661","title":"Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare's the Winter's Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Martina Zamparo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Modern - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare's last plays, \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with \u003ci\u003etopoi\u003c\/i\u003e, myths, and emblematic imagery coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in Shakespeare's play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the \u003ci\u003efilius philosophorum\u003c\/i\u003e, and the so-called \u003ci\u003erex chymicus\u003c\/i\u003e. This 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the \u003ci\u003erota alchemica\u003c\/i\u003e and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James's conciliatory attitude.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45278783242391,"sku":"9783031051661","price":7345.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783031051661.webp?v=1769291864","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/alchemy-paracelsianism-and-shakespeares-the-winters-tale-9783031051661","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}