 | Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 592 pages
...the NFF, 1991, box 37,file 9. 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...Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale [4.4.89—971 Nearly all the deeper questions dealt with by modern philosophers... | |
 | Frederick Turner - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 232 pages
...ancestry. 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 That...Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. (IV.iv.88) The image that Polixenes uses to explain the relationship between nature and art (or rather,... | |
 | Parke Godwin - 1999 - 316 pages
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 | Leo Marx - History - 2000 - 428 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 That...Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is Nature. The context, it is generally conceded, lends Shakespeare's support to Polixenes' view of the matter:... | |
 | Anuradha Sharma - 2005 - 478 pages
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 | John London - Performing Arts - 2000 - 372 pages
...and Polixenes was deleted. Gone from the script are Polixenes's words extolling the art of marrying 'a gentler scion to the wildest stock, / And make...change it, rather - but / The art itself, is Nature' (ll. 93-7). Without a doubt, Shakespeare's play reverberates with murky suspicions of adultery and... | |
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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... 
