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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 30
T2  - Lingue e Linguaggi
SP  - 307-36.
ID  - bbbo936
T1  - "'The office becomes a woman best': Alchemy, Women, and Healing in The Winter's Tale"
AU  - Zamparo, Martina
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2026
DO  - 10.1285/i22390359v30p307
KW  - alchemy
LA  - English
AB  - Offers an alchemical and allegorical reading of Winter's Tale where Hermione represents "the feminine aspect of matter"; Leontes represents "rex chymicus...raw matter that has been transmuted into gold"; Perdita embodies the "fruit of the chemical wedding between the royal couple"; and Paulina "functions as a personification of the art of alchemy and, as a dramatist, directs the events." English summary, 307.
ER  -