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Introduction,field on alchemy and Paracelsianism and provides the reader with full bibliographical references to the essential primary and secondary sources. Furthermore, it discusses early modern alchemy’s status as a fraud, a felony, a metallurgical craft, a medical discipline, a form of magic, and a complex philosophical and religious thought system.

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Water and Timeses the play’s seasonal imagery in relation to the phases of the Great Work and demonstrates that the alchemical symbolism of Saturn-Time is illuminating in order to understand the tragicomic and diptych-like structure of ..

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Art and Natureitionally regarded as the ‘microcosm’ of the play, Shakespeare offers a coherent and unifying perspective from which to address all the other issues of the play. This chapter also contends that Perdita embodies the synthesis of art and nature that is at the core of the alchemical philosophy.

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and James IChapter . also highlights that the medical and alchemical emblem of the caduceus, a symbol traditionally associated with James I, is evoked in the opening scene of the play. This chapter’s arguments are reinforced by quotations from the monarch’s ..

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Book 2022vey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Importantly, it contends that .The Winter’s Tale., in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the .rotaalchemica.?and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James’s conciliatory attitude..

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Introduction,an in-depth overview of the authors and works that made alchemy familiar to Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences. It also considers the extant critical field on alchemy and Paracelsianism and provides the reader with full bibliographical references to the essential primary and secondary sources. Furth

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Alchemy in Elizabethan Englandnsiders the sovereign’s attitude towards the alchemists and natural philosophers who sought for royal patronage. Despite being often regarded as a dangerous and fraudulent activity, alchemy offered Elizabethan poets, dramatists, and artists a rich set of allegorical images and symbols with which to

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