 | Ekbert Faas - 1986 - 244 pàgines
...self-realization of nature: Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean But Nature makes that mean; so over art, Which you say adds to Nature, is an art, That...Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is Nature, (iv.iv) It is distorting the facts to say that these words voice no more than an "orthodox" aesthetic... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 pàgines
...understand, an application of his argument that will support her marriage to his son as prince of the realm: You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the...— change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. [V,iv.92-97] In Polixenes' mind, of course, Perdita is the "bark of baser kind" destined to be made... | |
 | Frederick Burwick - 2010 - 357 pàgines
...complicated it. Schlegel refers to a passage from The Winter's Tale: Yet nature is made better by no mean, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature...nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. (IV.iv.89-97) Aware of his son's attraction to a shepherd's daughter, King Polixenes, in his botanical... | |
 | A. Dwight Baldwin, Judith De Luce, Carl Pletsch - 1994 - 294 pàgines
...FOLIXENES: Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean Bnt Nature makes that mean; so, o'ver that art, Which you say adds to Nature, is an art...Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. (4.4.83-97) We find similar ideas in other great Renaissance aesthetic theorists — the architects... | |
 | Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - 1993 - 302 pàgines
...Tale, IV. iv. 89-92)4: . . . nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That.... change it rather, but The art itself, is nature. Hamlet' s words should be taken as emphasising that 'Nature' makes 'an arf in drama. If Art itself... | |
 | Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm - 1996 - 466 pàgines
...PERDITA . . . There is an art, which in their piedness shares With great creating Nature. POLIXENES Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean...Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. As usual, Shakespeare says it all: the subtext here is that Perdita is a base shepherdess who wants... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 pàgines
...Polixenes. Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art...- change it rather - but The art itself is nature. Perdita. So it is. Polixenes. Then make your garden rich in gillyvors, And do not call them bastards.... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - 1996 - 392 pàgines
...Polixenes in A Winter's Tale:— "Nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean; so, over that art, Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art...— change it rather: but The art itself is nature." Whitman has not failed to perceive this truth, but he fears that it may be abused. Meddling with nature... | |
 | Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - 1997 - 592 pàgines
...the NFF, 1991, box 37,file 9. Nature is made better by no mean But Nature makes that mean; so, over that art Which you say adds to Nature, is an art That...Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale [4.4.89—971 Nearly all the deeper questions dealt with by modern philosophers... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 pàgines
...ancestry. POLIXENES: Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean But Nature makes that mean; so over that art Which you say adds to Nature, is an art That...Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. (IV.iv.88) The image that Polixenes uses to explain the relationship between nature and art (or rather,... | |
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But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art... 
