Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780815321491 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 448 str.

Philip C. Kolin;Philip C. Kolin

Opis

Surveys the criticism of Shakespeare's long narrative poem by combining 19 works reprinted from the early 19th to the late 20th century, with seven original essays. They examine it, and its stage rendition, from such perspectives as Lacanian desire, semiotics and Elizabethan wardship, women readers,

Spis treści

"Venus and/or Adonis Among the Critics", Philip C. Kolin * "Lo, in this hollow cradle take thy rest": Sexual Conflict and Resolution in Venus and Adonis, Robert P. Merrix * Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis: A Lacanian Tragicomedy of Desire, James Schiffer * "Pining Their Maws": Female Readers and the Erotic Ontology of the Text in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, Richard Halpern * Picturing Venus and Adonis: Shakespeare and The Artists, Georgianna Ziegler * "Wriothesley's Resistance: Wardship Practices, and Ovidian Narratives in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis ", Patrick M. Murphy * Venus as Praeceptor: The Ars Amatoria in Venus and Adonis, M.L. Stapleton * Almeida: Venus and Lucrece, Betty Caplan * Venus and Adonis: An Early Account of Sexual Harassment, Joseph Wortis, M.D. * "A chronological Bibliograph of Scholarship...", Philip C. Kolin

O autorze

Philip C. Kolin