Shakespeare S Erotic Mythology And Ovidian Renaissance Culture

Author : Ms Agnès Lafont
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472406675

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Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture by Ms Agnès Lafont Pdf

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 textual material, scholars explore the transmission and reinvention of Ovidian eroticism in Shakespeare’s plays to show how early modern artists and audiences collectively engaged in redefining ways of thinking pleasure. Within the collection’s broad-ranging investigation of erotic mythology in Renaissance culture, each chapter analyses specific instances of textual and pictorial transmission, reception, and adaptation. Through various critical strategies, contributors trace Shakespeare’s use of erotic material to map out the politics and aesthetics of pleasure, unravelling the ways in which mythology informs artistic creation. Received acceptions of neo-platonic love and the Petrarchan tensions of unattainable love are revisited, with a focus on parodic and darker strains of erotic desire, such as Priapic and Dionysian energies, lustful fantasy and violent eros. The dynamics of interacting tales is explored through their structural ability to adapt to the stage. Myth in Renaissance culture ultimately emerges not merely as near-inexhaustible source material for the Elizabethan and Jacobean arts, but as a creative process in and of itself.

Author : Dustin W. Dixon,John S. Garrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350098169

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Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare by Dustin W. Dixon,John S. Garrison Pdf

The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also the nature of theatrical spectacle itself. The very impossibility of rendering the gods in all their divine splendor in a truly convincing way lies at the intersection of divine power and the power of the theater. This book pursues these dynamics on the stages of ancient Athens and Rome as well on those of Renaissance England to shed new light on theatrical performance. The authors reveal how gods appear onstage both to astound and to dramatize the very machinations by which theatrical performance operates. Offering an array of case studies featuring both canonical and lesser-studied texts, this volume discusses work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Plautus as well as Beaumont, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. This book uniquely brings together the joint perspectives of two experts on classical and Renaissance drama. This volume will appeal to students and enthusiasts of literature, classics, theater, and performance studies.

Author : Armelle Sabatier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472568069

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Shakespeare and Visual Culture by Armelle Sabatier Pdf

Statues coming to life and lively portraits ready to breathe in Shakespeare? This new volume re-assesses the key role played by visual culture in his drama and poetry by providing readers with an up-to-date guide to the main publications on the subject as well as offering a synthesis on the main literary and historical sources for inspiration. While scrutinising the complex issue of image on an Elizabethan stage and exploring the codification of colours in Shakespeare's poetry, this dictionary highlights the fierce rivalry between the poet, the dramatist and the visual artist. This volume will be of great interest and value to students of Shakespeare, students of art history or anyone working on the interdisciplinary subject of literature and art.

Author : L. Starks-Estes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137349927

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Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare's Roman Poems and Plays by L. Starks-Estes Pdf

Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of aggression, sadomasochism, and the shifting notions of selfhood and masculinity.

Author : John S. Garrison,Goran Stanivukovic
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228004530

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Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature by John S. Garrison,Goran Stanivukovic Pdf

Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace romantic ideals of courtship, civility, and friendship. Ovid's writing about masculinity, love, and desire shaped discourses of masculinity across a wide range of literary texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including poetry, prose fiction, and drama. The book covers all major works by Ovid, in addition to Italian humanists Angelo Poliziano and Natale Conti, canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, and John Milton, and lesser-known writers such as Wynkyn de Worde, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Richard Johnson, Robert Greene, John Marston, Thomas Heywood, and Francis Beaumont. Individual essays examine emasculation, abjection, pacifism, female masculinity, boys' masculinity, parody, hospitality, and protean Jewish masculinity. Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature demonstrates how Ovid's poetry gave vigour and vitality to male voices in English literature - how his works inspired English writers to reimagine the male authorial voice, the male body, desire, and love in fresh terms.

Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691210148

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How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate Pdf

"This book grew from the inaugural E. H. Gombrich Lectures in the Classical Tradition that I delivered in the autumn of 2013 at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, under the title, "Ancient Strength: Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition"--Preface, page ix.

Author : Giulia Sissa,Francesca Martelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781350268968

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Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination by Giulia Sissa,Francesca Martelli Pdf

This book positions Ovid's Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of human origins to create a world of hybrid objects, which retain varying degrees of human subjectivity while taking on new physical form. In bending the boundaries of known categories of being, these hybrid entities reveal both the porousness of human and other agencies as well as the dangers released by their fusion. Metamorphosis unsettles the category of the human within the complex ecologies that make up the world as we know it. Drawing on a range of modern environmental theorists and approaches, the contributors to this volume trace how the Metamorphoses models the relationship between humans and other life forms in ways that resonate with the preoccupations of contemporary eco-criticism. They make the case for seeing the worldview depicted in Ovid's poem as an exemplar of the 'premodern' ecological mindset that contemporary environmental thought seeks to approximate. They also highlight critical moments in the history of the poem's ecological reception, including reflections by a contemporary poet, as well as studies of Medieval and Renaissance responses to Ovid.

Author : J. Snodgrass,John Snodgrass
Publisher : City of Light Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781952536373

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Shakespeare's Goddess by J. Snodgrass,John Snodgrass Pdf

In our culture, Shakespeare's works are classics and his characters have achieved mythical status. But what did William Shakespeare consider to be the great myths and classics? And who were the empowering role models for his bold and unforgettable heroines? In plays and poems throughout his career, Shakespeare explored many facets of the divine feminine, including Greek and Roman goddesses— he nearly deified Queen Elizabeth. His characters frequently refer to classical goddesses, some plays feature literal appearances of goddesses onstage, and the goddess of love starred in his epic poem Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare's Goddess explores the poet's many representations of the divine feminine, as a pantheon of individual deities, and also as diverse manifestations of a single, multifaceted goddess. This thoroughly researched sequel to Supernatural Shakespeare: Magic and Ritual in Merry Old England will appeal to scholars, but its playful and engaging tone also makes it accessible to anyone who appreciates Shakespeare.

Author : Lindsay Ann Reid
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781843845188

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Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval by Lindsay Ann Reid Pdf

A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet.

Author : Starks Lisa Starks
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474430098

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Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre by Starks Lisa Starks Pdf

Uses adaptation and appropriation studies to explore early modern textual and theatrical metamorphoses of OvidApplies contemporary theoretical approaches, such as gender/queer/trans studies, feminist ecostudies, hauntology, rhizomatic adaptation, transmedialityUses adaptation studies in analyzing early modern transformations of OvidFocuses on the appropriations of "e;Ovid"e; (as an umbrella term for "e;all things Ovidian"e;) on the early modern English stageIncludes chapters on Shakespeare and Marlowe as well as other early modern dramatistsDid you know that Ovid was a multifaceted icon of lovesickness, endless change, libertinism, emotional torment and violence in early modern England? This is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid. It provides innovative perspectives on the 'Ovids' that haunted the early modern stage, while exploring intersections between adaptation theory and gender/queer/trans studies, ecofeminism, hauntology, transmediality, rhizomatics and more. This book examines the multidimensional, ubiquitous role that Ovid and Ovidian adaptations played in English Renaissance drama and theatrical performance.

Author : William Keach
Publisher : New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106005481236

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Elizabethan Erotic Narratives by William Keach Pdf

Author : Sarah Carter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030689087

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Early Modern Intertextuality by Sarah Carter Pdf

This book is an exploration of the viability of applying the post structuralist theory of intertextuality to early modern texts. It suggests that a return to a more theorised understanding of intertextuality, as that outlined by Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes, is more productive than an interpretation which merely identifies ‘source’ texts. The book analyses several key early modern texts through this lens, arguing that the period’s conscious focus on and prioritisation of the creative imitation of classical and contemporary European texts makes it a particularly fertile era for intertextual reading. This analysis includes discussion of early modern creative writers’ utilisation of classical mythology, allegory, folklore, parody, and satire, in works by William Shakespeare, Sir Francis Bacon, John Milton, George Peele, Thomas Lodge, Christopher Marlowe, Francis Beaumont, and Ben Jonson, and foregrounds how meaning is created and conveyed by the interplay of texts and the movement between narrative systems. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of early modern literature, as well as early modern scholars.

Author : Jennifer Munroe,Rebecca Laroche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472590473

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Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory by Jennifer Munroe,Rebecca Laroche Pdf

Ecofeminism has been an important field of theory in philosophy and environmental studies for decades. It takes as its primary concern the way the relationship between the human and nonhuman is both material and cultural, but it also investigates how this relationship is inherently entangled with questions of gender equity and social justice. Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory engagingly establishes a history of ecofeminist scholarship relevant to early modern studies, and provides a clear overview of this rich field of philosophical enquiry. Through fresh, detailed readings of Shakespeare's poetry and drama, this volume is a wholly original study articulating the ways in which we can better understand the world of Shakespeare's plays, and the relationships between men, women, animals, and plants that we see in them.

Author : Julia Reinhard Lupton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226266152

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Shakespeare Dwelling by Julia Reinhard Lupton Pdf

Great halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside shelters—these are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard Lupton enters Shakespeare’s dwelling places in search of insights into the most fundamental human problems. Focusing on five works (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter’s Tale), Lupton remakes the concept of dwelling by drawing on a variety of sources, including modern design theory, Renaissance treatises on husbandry and housekeeping, and the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. The resulting synthesis not only offers a new entry point into the contemporary study of environments; it also shows how Shakespeare’s works help us continue to make sense of our primal creaturely need for shelter.

Author : Stuart Sillars
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107029958

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Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination by Stuart Sillars Pdf

A fully illustrated study of Shakespeare's awareness of traditions in visual art and their presence in his plays and poems.