Tyranny and Counselling Politics in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
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This study is intended to modify the traditional readings of The Winter’s Tale as a kind of domestic tragedy in which jealousy is taken as the thematic locus of the play. I argue that jealousy is used as a catalyst to highlight the play’s strong political orientation: the dynamic tension between tyranny and counselling politics. Jealousy in this drama has an enormous political dimension in its cause and effect. Leontes’ jealousy is an external mark that reveals the competitive nature of Sicilia’s relation to Bohemia, which in turn brings in the foreground the issue of misdirected leadership and possible remedial measures against it. The play seems to assert, through the apparently admirable characterization of Camillo and Paulina, that the royal abuse of power and its devastating consequences should be avoided by the counsels of enlightened advisors. However, in a subtle and subdued tone the play gives a warning that counselorship itself is also vulnerable to tyranny: the tyranny of egotism and of audacious solipsism on the part of court advisors.
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This study is intended to modify the traditional readings of The Winter’s Tale as a kind of domestic tragedy in which jealousy is taken as the thematic locus of the play. I argue that jealousy is used as a catalyst to highlight the play’s strong political orientation: the dynamic tension between tyranny and counselling politics. Jealousy in this drama has an enormous political dimension in its cause and effect. Leontes’ jealousy is an external mark that reveals the competitive nature of Sicilia’s relation to Bohemia, which in turn brings in the foreground the issue of misdirected leadership and possible remedial measures against it. The play seems to assert, through the apparently admirable characterization of Camillo and Paulina, that the royal abuse of power and its devastating consequences should be avoided by the counsels of enlightened advisors. However, in a subtle and subdued tone the play gives a warning that counselorship itself is also vulnerable to tyranny: the tyranny of egotism and of audacious solipsism on the part of court advisors.
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