Jane Kingsley-Smith is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Roehampton University and is a regular guest lecturer at Shakespeare's Globe. She is the author of Shakespeare's Drama of Exile (2003) and has also published on a range of topics including representations of Shakespeare in popular cinema, Elizabethan love tragedy and John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.

"In sure-footed, economical prose the author moves back and forth between poetry, painting, and drama with great but not (we are grateful) dizzying speed." -DAVID SCOTT WILSON-OKAMURA,East Carolina University

• Introduction; 1. Cupid, art and idolatry; 2. Cupid, death and tragedy; 3. Cupid, chastity and rebellious women; 4. Cupid and the boy: the pleasure and pain of boy-love; 5. 'Cupid and Psyche': the return of the sacred?

Jane Kingsley-Smith is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Roehampton University and is a regular guest lecturer at Shakespeare's Globe. She is the author of Shakespeare's Drama of Exile (2003) and has also published on a range of topics including representations of Shakespeare in popular cinema, Elizabethan love tragedy and John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.

"In sure-footed, economical prose the author moves back and forth between poetry, painting, and drama with great but not (we are grateful) dizzying speed." -DAVID SCOTT WILSON-OKAMURA,East Carolina University

• Introduction; 1. Cupid, art and idolatry; 2. Cupid, death and tragedy; 3. Cupid, chastity and rebellious women; 4. Cupid and the boy: the pleasure and pain of boy-love; 5. 'Cupid and Psyche': the return of the sacred?