Shakespeare's Lyric Stage: Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays by Seth Lerer

Author:Seth Lerer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

He dives into the King’s soul and there scatters

Dangers, doubts, wringing of the conscience,

Fears and despairs— (2.2.25–27)

Norfolk’s language grows mythic in accretion, and the image of Wolsey scattering the King’s emotional innards recalls Ovid’s vision of the hideous Gorgon landscape in book 4 of the Metamorphoses (in Arthur Golding’s translation):

The shapes as well of men as beasts lie scattered everie where

In open fields and common ways, the which transformed were

From living things to stones . . . (4.951–53).

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