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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... comic Venus at the beginning of the poem is perceived by the distanced reader as appealing one moment and frightening the next, as Falstaff is both a fool and a threat to the state without ever losing our measured admiration and his ...
... comic Venus at the beginning of the poem is perceived by the distanced reader as appealing one moment and frightening the next, as Falstaff is both a fool and a threat to the state without ever losing our measured admiration and his ...
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... comic 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 ...
... comic 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 ...
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... comic lust for a very young man barely emerging from boyhood” (“Reluctant Adonis” 484); more respectfully, Gordon Williams holds the same sentiments: Venus' “vulnerability is that of the older woman, desperate to renew her youth in the ...
... comic lust for a very young man barely emerging from boyhood” (“Reluctant Adonis” 484); more respectfully, Gordon Williams holds the same sentiments: Venus' “vulnerability is that of the older woman, desperate to renew her youth in the ...
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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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