Healing Music in Pericles, the Winter’s Tale and The Tempest
This essay examines the scenes in Shakespeare’s romances in which music has a healing and revitalizing power, but it also contains its own subversion. In Pericles, in the palace at Pentapolis, Pericles asks for a musical instrument, which he plays while he sings to himself. The wise doctor Cerimon r...
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Language: | English |
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2019-11-01
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Series: | Romanian Journal of English Studies |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2019-0006 |