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Title Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries / edited by Janice Valls-Russell, Agnès Lafont and Charlotte Coffin.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 283 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary This volume considers classical mythology in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The eleven essays approach tropes and figures from multiple perspectives: genre, gender, translation, classical reception and history.
This volume proposes new insights into the uses of classical mythology by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on interweaving processes in early modern appropriations of myth. Its 11 essays show how early modern writing intertwines diverse myths and plays with variant versions of individual myths that derive from multiple classical sources, as well as medieval, Tudor and early modern retellings and translations. Works discussed include poems and plays by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. Essays concentrate on specific plays including 'The Merchant of Venice' and 'Dido Queen of Carthage', tracing interactions between myths, chronicles, the Bible and contemporary genres. Mythological figures are considered to demonstrate how the weaving together of sources deconstructs gendered representations. New meanings emerge from these readings, which open up methodological perspectives on multi-textuality, artistic appropriation and cultural hybridity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Shakespeare's mythological feuilletage: a methodological induction / Yves Peyré -- The non-Ovidian Elizabethan epyllion: Thomas Watson, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Barnfield / Tania Demetriou -- 'This realm is an empire': tales of origins in medieval and early modern France and England / Dominique Goy-Blanquet -- Trojan shadows in Shakespeare's King John / Janice Valls-Russell -- Venetian Jasons, parti-coloured lambs and a tainted wether: Ovine tropes and the Golden Fleece in The Merchant of Venice / Atsuhiko Hirota -- Fifty ways to kill your brother: Medea and the poetics of fratricide in early modern English literature / Katherine Heavey -- 'She, whom Jove transported into Crete': Europa, between consent and rape / Gaëlle Ginestet -- Subtle weavers, mythological interweavings and feminine political agency: Penelope and Arachne in early modern drama / Nathalie Rivère de Carles -- Multi-layered conversations in Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage / Agnès Lafont -- Burlesque or neoplatonic? Popular or elite? The shifting value of classical mythology in Love's Mistress / Charlotte Coffin -- Pygmalion, once and future myth: instead of a conclusion / Ruth Morse.
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Criticism and interpretation.
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
Mythology in literature.
Mythology in literature.
Chronological Term 1500-1600
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Coffin, Charlotte, editor.
Lafont, Agnès, editor.
Valls-Russell, Janice, editor.
ISBN 9781526117694 (electronic book)
152611769X (electronic book)
9781526117687
1526117681