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Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture.

Taking cross-disciplinary and comparative approaches to the volume's subject, this exciting collection of essays offers a reassessment of Shakespeare's erotic and Ovidian mythology within classical and continental aesthetic contexts. Through extensive examination of mythological visual and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lafont, Agnès
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Taylor and Francis, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Plates; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Textual Notes; Introduction Interacting with Eros: Ovid and Shakespeare; PART I EROTIC AESTHETICS AND PRINTING POLITICS; 1 Ovidâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x98;Meta-metamorphosisâ#x80;#x99;: Book Illustration and the Circulation of Erotic Iconographical Patterns; 2 Political Uses of Erotic Power in an Elizabethan Mythological Programme: Dangerous Interactions with Diana in Hardwick Hall; PART II SHAKESPEAREâ#x80;#x99;S EROTIC POWER OF IMAGINATION.
  • 3 Erotic Fancy/Fantasy in Venus and Adonis, A Midsummer Nightâ#x80;#x99;s Dream and Antony and Cleopatra4 Erotic Perspectives: When Pyramus and Thisbe Meet Hero and Leander in Romeo and Juliet; PART III SHAKESPEAREâ#x80;#x99;S EROTIC POWER OF RECREATION (AND MISCREATION); Parodic Interactions with Darker Desires; 5 Priapus in Shakespeare: From Luxuriant Gardens to Luxurious Brothels; 6 Parody and the Erotic Beast: Relocating Titania and Bottom; Flirting with Erotic Taboos; 7 Cupid, Infantilism and Maternal Desire on the Early Modern Stage; 8 Queering Pygmalion: Ovid, Euripides and The Winterâ#x80;#x99;s Tale.
  • Deadly Rapture9 The â#x80;#x98;new Gorgonâ#x80;#x99;: Eros, Terror and Violence in Macbeth; PART IV CODA; 10 Femmina masculo e masculo femmina: Ovidian Mythical Structures, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo and As You Like It; General Bibliography.