Reason diminished : Shakespeare and the marvelous /
Platt, Peter G.,1961-
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,
c1997.
Based on the author's thesis (D. Phil., Oxford University).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-258) and index.
Theories of wonder from Aristotle to the Renaissance -- Wonder and the reformation of images -- Womder and the natural world -- Wonder and Elizabethan fiction -- The masque and the marvelous -- Pericles and the wonder of unburdened proof -- "Amaz'd with matter" and "perplex'd in all": wonder in Cymbeline -- Reason diminished: wonder in The winter's tale -- Wonder personified, wonder anatomized: The tempest.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Marvelous, The, in literature.
Reason in literature.