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Virginia Mason Vaughan - Shakespeare and the Gods, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Shakespeare and the Gods

Av Virginia Mason Vaughan

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Now available in paperback, Shakespeare and the Gods examines Shakespeare’s many allusions to six classical gods (Jupiter, Diana, Venus, Mars, Hercules and Ceres) that enhance his readers’ and audiences’ understanding and enjoyment of his work. Vaughan explains their historical context, from their origins in ancient Greece to their appropriation in Rome and their role in medieval and early modern mythography. The book also illuminates Shakespeare’s classical allusions by comparison to the work of contemporaries like Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson and Thomas Heywood and explores allusive patterns that repeat throughout Shakespeare’s canon. Each chapter concludes with a more focused reading of one or two plays in which the god appears or serves as an underlying motif. Shakespeare and the Gods highlights throughout the gods’ participation in western constructions of gender as well as classical myth’s role in changing attitudes toward human violence and sexuality.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-03-19
  • Mått: 128 x 196 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 287 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781474284264
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Virginia Mason Vaughan is Professor Emerita and Research Professor in the Department of English at Clark University, USA. She is a leading international expert on The Tempest, and co-editor of the Arden Third Series edition of the play. Her publications also include Antony and Cleopatra: Language and Writing (Arden Shakespeare, 2015), The Tempest: A Critical Reader (co-edited with Alden T. Vaughan, Arden Shakespeare, 2014), and Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance (co-edited with Gordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin, Arden Shakespeare, 2013).

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Virginia Mason Vaughan's Shakespeare and the Gods is a clear and intelligently useful guide to the scope and meaning of Shakespeare's allusions to major classical deities. This book deftly explores the ways in which Shakespeare serves as a major interpreter of these classical legends, to the extent that his plays and poems are the texts where we most fully and rewardingly encounter the rich classical tradition of sexual warfare reaching back to Homer, Virgil, and Ovid.

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