Incendium Amoris



"But I haven't lost the demons' craft and cunning: I've inherited
from them some useful things, but they won't be used for their benefit!"


--Robert de Boron, Merlin

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Location: Ontario, Canada

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

The Fisher King

Small revelation of the day: Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well plays comically on the myth of the Fisher King (think about it, the King of France has a fistula--metaphorically maimed or wounded--Parolles is the 'Mayday' scapegoat whose sacrificial humiliation helps restore political order, Helen saves the Maimed King--inverted questing knight--with her father's medicine then goes on a mission--quest motif again!--to restore sexual, matrimonial and political harmony in the play).


1 Comments:

Blogger Vixen said...

Riveting!

10:42 PM  

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