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.

List of contents

Introduction: 'Ariachne's broken woof' - Janice Valls-Russell, Agnès Lafont and Charlotte Coffin
1 Shakespeare's mythological feuilletage: A methodological induction - Yves Peyré
2 The non-Ovidian Elizabethan epyllion: Thomas Watson, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Barnfield - Tania Demetriou
3 'This realm is an empire': Tales of origins in medieval and early modern France and England - Dominique Goy-Blanquet
4 Trojan shadows in Shakespeare's King John - Janice Valls-Russell
5 Venetian Jasons, parti-coloured lambs and a tainted wether: Ovine tropes and the Golden Fleece in The Merchant of Venice - Atsuhiko Hirota
6 Fifty ways to kill your brother: Medea and the poetics of fratricide in early modern English literature - Katherine Heavey
7 'She, whom Jove transported into Crete': Europa, between consent and rape - Gaëlle Ginestet
8 Subtle weavers, mythological interweavings and feminine political agency: Penelope and Arachne in early modern drama - Nathalie Rivère de Carles
9 Multi-layered conversations in Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage - Agnès Lafont
10 Burlesque or neoplatonic? Popular or elite? The shifting value of classical mythology in Love's Mistress - Charlotte Coffin
11 Pygmalion, once and future myth: Instead of a conclusion - Ruth Morse
Index

About the author

Janice Valls-Russell is at Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier; Agnès Lafont is Senior Lecturer at Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier; Charlotte Coffin is at Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Janice Valls-Russell, Janice Lafont Valls-Russell
• Assisted by: Charlotte Coffin (Editor), Agnes Lafont (Editor), Agnès Lafont (Editor), Janice Valls-Russell (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781526117700
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1770-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century, Literature & literary studies, Myth & legend told as fiction, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales