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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... Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817) denounced Venus and its companion poem The Rape of Lucrece for being unengaging, distant, stiff: “It has been the fashion of late to cry up on our author's poems, as equal to his plays: this is ...
... Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817) denounced Venus and its companion poem The Rape of Lucrece for being unengaging, distant, stiff: “It has been the fashion of late to cry up on our author's poems, as equal to his plays: this is ...
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... characters of the legendary lovers travesty Neoplatonic notions of love, which were as current and popular then as Freudian concepts are now” (148). Doebler faulted the fated pair on still other grounds: “The clear limitation of too ...
... characters of the legendary lovers travesty Neoplatonic notions of love, which were as current and popular then as Freudian concepts are now” (148). Doebler faulted the fated pair on still other grounds: “The clear limitation of too ...
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... characters; one function of the allusions to Adonis's mother is to suggest that the sexual dealings of partners of greatly unequal age are bound at some level to replicate the archetypal relationship based on an unequal powerstructure ...
... characters; one function of the allusions to Adonis's mother is to suggest that the sexual dealings of partners of greatly unequal age are bound at some level to replicate the archetypal relationship based on an unequal powerstructure ...
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... character. Venus and Adonis are mouthpieces for contrasting attitudes toward love” (“Introduction” 13). Rejecting any “allegory” as a true meaning of the poem, Bevington further claims that its seriousness is as much a part of the poem ...
... character. Venus and Adonis are mouthpieces for contrasting attitudes toward love” (“Introduction” 13). Rejecting any “allegory” as a true meaning of the poem, Bevington further claims that its seriousness is as much a part of the poem ...
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... characters' plight? Did earlier readers feel less anxious because they saw the poem more symbolically/politically than we do? Readers have raised these and other issues with varying degrees of sophistication and success. As we saw from ...
... characters' plight? Did earlier readers feel less anxious because they saw the poem more symbolically/politically than we do? Readers have raised these and other issues with varying degrees of sophistication and success. As we saw from ...
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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