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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... boar for the lower classes” (216). Commenting on still other Elizabethan readers, Maurice Evans paints a different picture of them as sophisticated aesthetes. “The Elizabethans were more flexible readers than we are, able to accept ...
... boar for the lower classes” (216). Commenting on still other Elizabethan readers, Maurice Evans paints a different picture of them as sophisticated aesthetes. “The Elizabethans were more flexible readers than we are, able to accept ...
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... Boar'” 13). Who are these readers? For Sheidley, “The logic of the tragic plot depends upon such great improbability that the disaster which overtakes the boy and the goddess promises quite the opposite for more ordinary men and women ...
... Boar'” 13). Who are these readers? For Sheidley, “The logic of the tragic plot depends upon such great improbability that the disaster which overtakes the boy and the goddess promises quite the opposite for more ordinary men and women ...
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... boar. Her curse “serves as an inverted moral of the story: the irrational is thus perpetuated” (14). In exploring “the darker, more dangerous tendencies in the goddess of love” (Captiue Victors 36), Dubrow inveighs against Venus' desire ...
... boar. Her curse “serves as an inverted moral of the story: the irrational is thus perpetuated” (14). In exploring “the darker, more dangerous tendencies in the goddess of love” (Captiue Victors 36), Dubrow inveighs against Venus' desire ...
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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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