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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... Renaissance and the classical writer with whom Shakespeare was often admiringly compared. Significantly, too, Shakespeare chose to start his poetic career writing about the vagaries of love as “Chaucer and Spenser before him.
... Renaissance and the classical writer with whom Shakespeare was often admiringly compared. Significantly, too, Shakespeare chose to start his poetic career writing about the vagaries of love as “Chaucer and Spenser before him.
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... Renaissance morality . . . love-making which stresses intercourse for the sake of pleasure only is artificial, a perversion of nature because a misuse of natural functions. This love falls into the old confusion of utendum and fruendum ...
... Renaissance morality . . . love-making which stresses intercourse for the sake of pleasure only is artificial, a perversion of nature because a misuse of natural functions. This love falls into the old confusion of utendum and fruendum ...
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... Renaissance painting, and of repudiating the denials of the flesh by puritan moralists and Neoplatonic theorists” (Shakespeare the Professional 1 86). In language and tone that Muir would condone, Tita French Baumlin underscores the ...
... Renaissance painting, and of repudiating the denials of the flesh by puritan moralists and Neoplatonic theorists” (Shakespeare the Professional 1 86). In language and tone that Muir would condone, Tita French Baumlin underscores the ...
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... Renaissance responded to “sexual certainties,” Bruce Smith in 1991 advanced a far more radical reading than Bradbrook's. Keeping in the spirit of gender studies of the 1980s and 1990s, Smith argues that “an erotic allure” in the poem ...
... Renaissance responded to “sexual certainties,” Bruce Smith in 1991 advanced a far more radical reading than Bradbrook's. Keeping in the spirit of gender studies of the 1980s and 1990s, Smith argues that “an erotic allure” in the poem ...
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... Renaissance painting and, on an even deeper level, notes that “The ambivalence of the poem is caused by the poet's own acceptance of the conflicting feelings about love, and partly by the essentially dramatic nature of his imagination ...
... Renaissance painting and, on an even deeper level, notes that “The ambivalence of the poem is caused by the poet's own acceptance of the conflicting feelings about love, and partly by the essentially dramatic nature of his imagination ...
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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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