Shakespeare's Spiral: Tracing the Snail in King Lear and Renaissance Painting

by Gleyzon Fran&Amp#231Ois-Xavier (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $56.16

  This book explores the figure of the snail in Shakespeare and in Renaissance painting. From the emergence of the gastropod object/subject in the text of King Lear and its iconic interface in Giovanni Bellini's painting Allegory of Falsehood, this study follows the path traced by the snail throughout the Ouvre.