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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... allegorical, and the thematic. Readers tutored in this school valorize the poem as a philosophical/theological statement and regard their criticism as unpacking the wisdom the poem offers. One of the most apostolic views of Venus and ...
... allegorical, and the thematic. Readers tutored in this school valorize the poem as a philosophical/theological statement and regard their criticism as unpacking the wisdom the poem offers. One of the most apostolic views of Venus and ...
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... allegory, lust or desire must be powerful and fair, for lust is enticing” (52). Plato has been invited into the poem by critics privileging ethical imperatives. Concerned with “moral meaning” in Venus and Adonis, Don Cameron Allen ...
... allegory, lust or desire must be powerful and fair, for lust is enticing” (52). Plato has been invited into the poem by critics privileging ethical imperatives. Concerned with “moral meaning” in Venus and Adonis, Don Cameron Allen ...
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... allegorical readings are solidly grounded in historical/philosophical evidence, they have been challenged frequently ... allegory in a poem which resists any one pattern of symbolism. . . . 'Platonic' analyses of literature are often ...
... allegorical readings are solidly grounded in historical/philosophical evidence, they have been challenged frequently ... allegory in a poem which resists any one pattern of symbolism. . . . 'Platonic' analyses of literature are often ...
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... allegorical/moral interpreters of Venus and Adonis are those who support its “daring sensuality” (Muir Shakespeare, 51). These readers interrogate and destabilize objections voiced earlier by seventeenth-century moralists, nineteenth ...
... allegorical/moral interpreters of Venus and Adonis are those who support its “daring sensuality” (Muir Shakespeare, 51). These readers interrogate and destabilize objections voiced earlier by seventeenth-century moralists, nineteenth ...
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... allegory” as a true meaning of the poem, Bevington further claims that its seriousness is as much a part of the poem as the “sexual teasing” and “our own erotic pleasure” (14). The debate between Venus and Adonis, according to the ...
... allegory” as a true meaning of the poem, Bevington further claims that its seriousness is as much a part of the poem as the “sexual teasing” and “our own erotic pleasure” (14). The debate between Venus and Adonis, according to the ...
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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