Florizel the Gentleman: Shakespeare's Class-Consciousness in The Winter's Tale
Florizel the Gentleman: Shakespeare's Class-Consciousness in The Winter's Tale
- 한국영미어문학회
- 영미어문학
- 영미어문학(TAEGU REVIEW) 제69호
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2003.121 - 16 (16 pages)
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Shakespeare made few changes for The Winter's Tale from its source Robert Greene's Pandosto: In Greene's novel, Dorastus is a most reluctant suitor for Fawnia, chiding himself constantly for being so attracted to a shepherd's daughter, while Florizel has absolutely no reservations about loving Perdita who is believed to be a shepherd's daughter. Florizel intuits about Perdita that she is actually gentle. The intuitive knowledge belongs to many of Shakespeare's gentle characters, such as Orlando, Arviragus and Guiderius The base-borns in Shakespeare's plays do not have the characteristic of the gentle. This paper insists that Shakespeare's concern of Florize)'s intuition comes from the notion of order which was a very significant part of Elizabethan thought.
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