UID:
almahu_9948126491302882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 283 pages) :
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illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2017. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9781526117694
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9781526117717
Series Statement:
Manchester Shakespeare collection
Content:
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.
Note:
In-house editor: Matthew Frost.
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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
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended).
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Valls-Russell, Janice; Lafont, Agnès; Coffin, Charlotte. Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2017, ISBN 9781526117687
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781526117694
URL:
https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526117694/9781526117694.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526117694
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