 | Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - Literary Collections - 1993 - 302 pages
...Tale, IV. iv. 89-92)4: . . . nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That.... change it rather, but The art itself, is nature. Hamlet' s words should be taken as emphasising that 'Nature' makes 'an arf in drama. If Art itself... | |
 | A. Dwight Baldwin, Judith De Luce, Carl Pletsch - Nature - 1994 - 294 pages
...FOLIXENES: Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean Bnt Nature makes that mean; so, o'ver that art, Which you say adds to Nature, is an art...Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. (4.4.83-97) We find similar ideas in other great Renaissance aesthetic theorists — the architects... | |
 | Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 466 pages
...PERDITA . . . There is an art, which in their piedness shares With great creating Nature. POLIXENES Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean...Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. As usual, Shakespeare says it all: the subtext here is that Perdita is a base shepherdess who wants... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 392 pages
...Polixenes in A Winter's Tale:— "Nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean; so, over that art, Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art...— change it rather: but The art itself is nature." Whitman has not failed to perceive this truth, but he fears that it may be abused. Meddling with nature... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...Polixenes. Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art...- change it rather - but The art itself is nature. Perdita. So it is. Polixenes. Then make your garden rich in gillyvors, And do not call them bastards.... | |
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But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art... 
