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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... beauty, a new mode of plastic expression. (205-06) Reflecting his own self-indulgence and fin de siécle emphasis on sexual pleasures, Wilde continued that “There was, however, more in [Shakespeare's] friendship than the mere delight of ...
... beauty, a new mode of plastic expression. (205-06) Reflecting his own self-indulgence and fin de siécle emphasis on sexual pleasures, Wilde continued that “There was, however, more in [Shakespeare's] friendship than the mere delight of ...
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... beauty and destruction, love and death, creation and chaos. (“Second Chance” 84) Concentrating on one of the earlier comedies in particular, Price proclaimed that “A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most pagan poem in English literature ...
... beauty and destruction, love and death, creation and chaos. (“Second Chance” 84) Concentrating on one of the earlier comedies in particular, Price proclaimed that “A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most pagan poem in English literature ...
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... beauty can be, and makes it easier to understand how he was fascinated and dominated, for a time, by Marlowe” (85). Yet the influence of Ovid is even stronger than that of Marlowe on Titus and Venus. Both Titus and Venus, Ovidian in ...
... beauty can be, and makes it easier to understand how he was fascinated and dominated, for a time, by Marlowe” (85). Yet the influence of Ovid is even stronger than that of Marlowe on Titus and Venus. Both Titus and Venus, Ovidian in ...
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... beauty and sexual prowess not only reveal her self-confidence, insatiable appetite, and wit, but also beget sympathy through rollicking, robust humor. Adonis is the inverse of Romeo and Troilus, and Venus the obverse of Juliet's Nurse ...
... beauty and sexual prowess not only reveal her self-confidence, insatiable appetite, and wit, but also beget sympathy through rollicking, robust humor. Adonis is the inverse of Romeo and Troilus, and Venus the obverse of Juliet's Nurse ...
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... beauty in "Venus and Adonis”: there are fits of power and freaks of poetry in the “Rape of Lucrece”: but good poems they are not: indeed they are hardly above the level of the imitations which followed the fashion set by them, from the ...
... beauty in "Venus and Adonis”: there are fits of power and freaks of poetry in the “Rape of Lucrece”: but good poems they are not: indeed they are hardly above the level of the imitations which followed the fashion set by them, from the ...
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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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