"Sacramental Magic and Animate Statues in Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and John Milton" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc596/ Author: Delsigne, Jill Renee. Type: Dissertation Year: 2013 Publication Information: Rice, 2013, not paginated. <p>Dissertation Abstracts International</p> Annotation: Includes an examination of how the animate statue in early modern romance is presented as "an emblem of the potential spiritually transformative power of objects" in Pericles and Winter's Tale. Language: English Keywords: statue; spirituality Tags: Pericles, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Winter's Tale WSB Update: Winter 2013 WSB Record Number: bbbc596