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. -- .
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. -- .
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
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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
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
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