Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Valls-Russell, Janice; Coffin, Charlotte; Lafont, Agnès

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume proposes new insights into the uses of classical mythology by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on interweaving processes in early modern appropriations of myth. Its 11 essays show how early modern writing intertwines diverse myths and plays with variant versions of individual myths that derive from multiple classical sources, as well as medieval, Tudor and early modern retellings and translations. Works discussed include poems and plays by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. Essays concentrate on specific plays including The Merchant of Venice and Dido Queen of Carthage, tracing interactions between myths, chronicles, the Bible and contemporary genres. Mythological figures are considered to demonstrate how the weaving together of sources deconstructs gendered representations. New meanings emerge from these readings, which open up methodological perspectives on multi-textuality, artistic appropriation and cultural hybridity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526117717
• Artikelnr.: 57471775

Autorenporträt

Janice Valls-Russell is employed by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, where she coordinates early modern research projects Agnès Lafont is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier Charlotte Coffin is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne

Inhaltsangabe

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