Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Plates -- Plate -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Textual Notes -- Introduction. Interacting with Eros: Ovid and Shakespeare -- Part I Erotic Aesthetics and Printing Politics -- 1 Ovid's 'Meta-metamorphosis': Book Illustration and the Circulation of Erotic Iconographical Patterns -- 2 Political Uses of Erotic Power in an Elizabethan Mythological Programme: Dangerous Interactions with Diana in Hardwick Hall -- Part II Shakespeare's Erotic Power of Imagination -- 3 Erotic Fancy/Fantasy in Venus and Adonis, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Antony and Cleopatra -- 4 Erotic Perspectives: When Pyramus and Thisbe Meet Hero and Leander in Romeo and Juliet -- Part III Shakespeare's Erotic Power of Recreation (and Miscreation) -- Parodic Interactions with Darker Desires -- 5 Priapus in Shakespeare: From Luxuriant Gardens to Luxurious Brothels -- 6 Parody and the Erotic Beast: Relocating Titania and Bottom -- Flirting with Erotic Taboos -- 7 Cupid, Infantilism and Maternal Desire on the Early Modern Stage -- 8 Queering Pygmalion: Ovid, Euripides and The Winter's Tale -- Deadly Rapture -- 9 The 'new Gorgon': Eros, Terror and Violence in Macbeth -- Part IV Coda -- 10 Femmina masculo e masculo femmina: Ovidian Mythical Structures, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo and As You Like It -- General Bibliography -- Index.

Taking cross-disciplinary and comparative approaches to the volume's subject, this exciting collection of essays offers a reassessment of Shakespeare's erotic and Ovidian mythology within classical and continental aesthetic contexts. Through extensive examination of mythological visual and textual material, scholars explore the transmission and reinvention of Ovidian eroticism in Shakespeare's plays to show how early modern artists and audiences collectively engaged in redefining ways of thinking pleasure.

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