SOURCE: “Dualism and the Hope of Reunion in The Winter's Tale,” in Soundings, Vol. LXIX, No. 3, Fall, 1986, pp. 294-309.
In the following essay, Marshall argues that the statue scene in The Winter's Tale suggests a modification of orthodox Christian eschatology by denying the dualism of body and soul. Relating this scene to a sixteenth-century heresy known as mortalism—which held that both soul and body were dead until judgment day, when both would be resurrected—Marshall emphasizes the communal as well as the miraculous nature of Hermione's reanimation.
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