‘A medlar with a plum tree’… in Cyril Tourneur’s The Atheist’s Tragedy

The presentation is about a short excerpt from Cyril Tourneur’s The Atheist’s Tragedy. It is situated in the opening scene of act IV. It is an inset within the dramatic tableau which consists in the depiction of a piece of embroidery. It represents a natural landscape with well-known plants, fruit-trees and snails such as the medlar, plum and pear trees, bachelor’s button…. It is an ornamental framed veduta on Nature, thus reified and encoded through the embroiderer’s subjective and arty needle-work. In the sequence, it is jokingly, but precisely, deciphered by three characters who happen to b... Mehr ...