"Reification, Mourning, and the Aesthetic in Antony and Cleopatra and The Winter's Tale" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc584/ Author: Grady, Hugh. Type: Book Chapter Year: 2013 Publication Information: DiPietro, Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now: Criticism and Theory in the 21st Century, 172–87. : DiPietro, Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now: Criticism and Theory in the 21st Century Annotation: Drawing from the critical theories associated with Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, traces the interactions between the thematic and the aesthetic in Antony and Cleopatra and Winter's Tale in order to argue that a modern sense of aesthetics existed in Shakespeare's time and that this aesthetic should be positively examined by and applied to contemporary critical culture. Language: English Persons: DiPietro, Cary; Adorno, Theodor; Benjamin, Walter Keywords: aesthetics Tags: Antony and Cleopatra, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Winter's Tale WSB Update: Winter 2013 WSB Record Number: bbbc584