Venus and Adonis: Critical EssaysRoutledge, 01/02/1997 - 448 páginas This is the first collection of critical essays devoted exclusively to Shakespeare's first published work, his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis which established his reputation as the literary darling of London and the heir of Ovid. Particularly important is the book's coverage of the little-known presence of Venus and Adonis on stage.A s |
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... Ovid's own mastery of lush, sensuous language. Flesh is a central concern in the poem, particularly its moistness, its texture. . . . (“Birth of the Bard” 199) Nor do critics in this camp of the flesh try to have it both ways as some ...
... Ovid's own mastery of lush, sensuous language. Flesh is a central concern in the poem, particularly its moistness, its texture. . . . (“Birth of the Bard” 199) Nor do critics in this camp of the flesh try to have it both ways as some ...
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... Ovid 50) Bate concludes that Shakespeare's “version [of the story] is very much his own, as Ovid's is his, in that the Metamorphoses do not lean particularly on the older versions of Venus and Adonis story . . .” (57). In this respect ...
... Ovid 50) Bate concludes that Shakespeare's “version [of the story] is very much his own, as Ovid's is his, in that the Metamorphoses do not lean particularly on the older versions of Venus and Adonis story . . .” (57). In this respect ...
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... Ovid's: “Shakespeare's Venus . . . unlike Ovid's . . . never succeeds in eliciting the desire of Adonis” (261). Admitting that Shakespeare, like other Renaissance poets, adopted from Ovid “above all the notion of erotic metamorphosis ...
... Ovid's: “Shakespeare's Venus . . . unlike Ovid's . . . never succeeds in eliciting the desire of Adonis” (261). Admitting that Shakespeare, like other Renaissance poets, adopted from Ovid “above all the notion of erotic metamorphosis ...
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... Ovid's Metamorphoses is full of aggressively passionate women who, like Shakespeare's Venus, do all the wooing” (9). Evans' views are typical of the received opinion about Shakespeare's first readers-they could be more generous than we ...
... Ovid's Metamorphoses is full of aggressively passionate women who, like Shakespeare's Venus, do all the wooing” (9). Evans' views are typical of the received opinion about Shakespeare's first readers-they could be more generous than we ...
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Índice
Venus and Adonis and the Critics | 66 |
Venus and Adonis in Production | 291 |
New Essays on Venus and Adonis | 300 |
Chronological Bibliography of Scholarship and Commentary on Venus and Adonis Including Editions and Reviews of Performances Philip C Kolin | 405 |
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