"What means Sicilia? He something seems unsettled": Sicily, Russia, and Bohemia in 'The Winter's Tale.'

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Understanding Renaissance views of ethnicity helps interpret William Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale.' Shakespeare's northern European characters begin the play assuming they are superior to their southern relatives. The Sicilians were more prosperous in the sixteenth century than Bohemians, whose country was in economic decline. Perdita, with Sicilian and Russian parents, is nevertheless of royal blood. Shakespeare challenges but does not overthrow the notion of racial superiority in 'The Winter's Tale.'

Russia, Sicily, Stereotypes (Psychology), Stereotype (Psychology) in literature, Bohemia

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'The Winter's Tale' and Guarinian dramaturgy

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William Shakespeare's play 'The Winter's Tale' makes use of an interaction among three genres, comedy and tragedy and pastoral, in a manner fitting the dramaturgical theory of Battista Guarini. In particular, the play uses the pastoral genre to move from comedy to tragedy or tragedy to comedy. This use of pastoral serves to limit the expressions of comedy or tragedy, and enables the play to retain an organic tragicomic identity.

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Caribbean Caliban: shifting the "I" of the storm

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George Lamming and Aime Cesaire are Caribbean authors who have reinterpreted William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' as a means for creating Caribbean consciousness. Lamming and Cesaire portray themselves as Caliban, exiled from their culture by colonialism.

Critical Essay, Caribbean Islands, Women poets, Cesaire, Aime, Literary criticism, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period), English literature, 1500-1660 (Renaissance), Lamming, George

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