Shakespeare''s Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture

Sommario

Introduction Interacting with Eros: Ovid and Shakespeare, Agnès Lafont; Part I Erotic Aesthetics and Printing Politics; Chapter 1 Ovid’s ‘Meta-metamorphosis’: Book Illustration and the Circulation of Erotic Iconographical Patterns, Ilaria Andreoli; Chapter 2 Political Uses of Erotic Power in an Elizabethan Mythological Programme: Dangerous Interactions with Diana in Hardwick Hall, Agnès Lafont; Part II Shakespeare’s Erotic Power of Imagination; Chapter 3 Erotic Fancy/Fantasy in Venus and Adonis, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Antony and Cleopatra, François Laroque; Chapter 4 Erotic Perspectives: When Pyramus and Thisbe Meet Hero and Leander in Romeo and Juliet, Janice Valls-Russell; Part III Shakespeare’s Erotic Power of Recreation (and Miscreation); Chapter 5 Priapus in Shakespeare: From Luxuriant Gardens to Luxurious Brothels, Frédéric Delord; Chapter 6 Parody and the Erotic Beast: Relocating Titania and Bottom, Stuart Sillars; Chapter 7 Cupid, Infantilism and Maternal Desire on the Early Modern Stage, Jane Kingsley-Smith; Chapter 8 Queering Pygmalion: Ovid, Euripides and The Winter’s Tale, Sarah Annes Brown; Chapter 9 The ‘new Gorgon’: Eros, Terror and Violence in Macbeth, Marguerite A. Tassi; Part IV Coda; Chapter 10 Femmina masculo e masculo femmina: Ovidian Mythical Structures, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo and As You Like It, Yves Peyré;

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Agnes Lafont
• Con la collaborazione di: Agnès Lafont (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781138254633
• ISBN: 978-1-138-25463-3
• Pagine: 224
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica > Drammatica; DRAMA / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literature: history and criticism, Plays, Playscripts, Classic and pre-20th century plays