Abstract
bute a mirror in which Death was reflected, either behind a human figure or behind Time himself, indicating the relentless intrusion of the future and its attendant decay upon the vitality of the present.1 More significant to an interpretation of this passage, it should be noted that one representation of the hourglass in Renaissance art, as Guy de Tervarent has shown, was an attribute of Youth or Age, depending upon whether the superior part of the glass was empty or full.' Thus one can surmise that one reason for Time's turning his hourglass is to show the upper part full and hence a potential for growth-life renewed; but also this action indicates that his concern now will be with Youth (Florizel and Perdita) and spring, while the grief-ravaged and aging Leontes must yet for a time endure the winter of his discontent.
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