Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture
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classical reception theory
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early modern eroticism
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Erotic Mythology
FranS Laroque
FrRic Delord
gender and sexuality discourse
Hardwick Hall
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Ilaria Andreoli
Jane Kingsley-Smith
Janice Valls-Russell
Jean De Tournes
Lot's Wife
Lot’s Wife
Luxurious Brothels
Marguerite A. Tassi
myth adaptation analysis
neoclassical aesthetics
Nonsuch Palace
Ovidian influence in English drama
Ovidius Moralizatus
Paul Barolsky
Peter Holland
Pygmalion's Statue
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Richard III
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- ISBN 9781138254633
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Agnès Lafont is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Studies in the English Department at Université Paul Valery Montpellier III, France.
