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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Venus and Adonis"”.
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"The perplexity of desire: Representation and poetic thinking in Shakespeare's ""Venus and Adonis"" and ""Love's Labor's Lost"""
While examining and challenging the current thought that desire only exists in the alienated movement between anticipation and insufficiency, this study arranges itself around three or four sentences used in discussions about desire: the proposition, a statement judged either true or false; the …
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Shakespeare's Air: Sovereignty, Omnipotence, and the Problem of the Other
At once life-giving and potentially fatal, the air’s inscrutability and capacity to enter into the body elicits powerful fears and fantasies in Shakespeare’s poems and plays. Violent winds, spectral presences, and airy spirits suffuse the atmosphere of his works; troubling the boundaries of the …
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'The Slaves of Chance': Aspects of the Exposition of Change in Some of Shakepeare's Works and their Sources
… work. The first chapter, devoted to the poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, points to the significance of the Time-Fortuna-Occasio topoi and of· genre conventions in Early Modern discourse on change; and seeks to identify some of the complexity in Shakespeare's use of them. An …
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Problematising Petrarchism: Shakespeare’s Varying Responses to an Elizabethan Cult
… is concerned with Shakespeare’s varied, rich and multifaceted responses to the cult of Petrarchism in Elizabethan England in selected sonnets, narrative poems and plays. I start by providing a sense of the historical tradition of Petrarchism both in general and in its various manifestations in …
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Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603
… of volumes included passages from his poems and plays, presenting them alongside similar excerpts by his rivals and contemporaries. The practices of reading and commonplacing that lie behind these anthologies have been reconstructed by recent scholars. Less work has been done, though, on how …
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Staging Canova: Sculpture, Connoisseurship and Display, 1780-1843
… genius not only through the masterful conception and carving of his sculptures, but also in the meticulous orchestration of their display. Enshrining his marble figures alongside plaster casts of ancient works, bathing them in candlelight, staining and waxing their surfaces, and even setting them …