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Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries /

This volume considers classical mythology in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The eleven essays approach tropes and figures from multiple perspectives: genre, gender, translation, classical reception and history.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Coffin, Charlotte (Editor ), Lafont, Agnès (Editor ), Valls-Russell, Janice (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Colección:Manchester Shakespeare collection
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Shakespeare's mythological feuilletage: a methodological induction / Yves Peyré
  • The non-Ovidian Elizabethan epyllion: Thomas Watson, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Barnfield / Tania Demetriou
  • 'This realm is an empire': tales of origins in medieval and early modern France and England / Dominique Goy-Blanquet
  • Trojan shadows in Shakespeare's King John / Janice Valls-Russell
  • Venetian Jasons, parti-coloured lambs and a tainted wether: Ovine tropes and the Golden Fleece in The Merchant of Venice / Atsuhiko Hirota
  • Fifty ways to kill your brother: Medea and the poetics of fratricide in early modern English literature / Katherine Heavey
  • 'She, whom Jove transported into Crete': Europa, between consent and rape / Gaëlle Ginestet
  • Subtle weavers, mythological interweavings and feminine political agency: Penelope and Arachne in early modern drama / Nathalie Rivère de Carles
  • Multi-layered conversations in Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage / Agnès Lafont
  • Burlesque or neoplatonic? Popular or elite? The shifting value of classical mythology in Love's Mistress / Charlotte Coffin
  • Pygmalion, once and future myth: instead of a conclusion / Ruth Morse.