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Renaissance tales of desire
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ISBN: 1280486236 1443836974 9786613581211 9781443836975 9781443836685 1443836680 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle Cambridge Scholars Pub.

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This revised and augmented edition of four mythological tales translated from Ovid during the Elizabethan period calls attention to the genre of the epyllion and suggests a possible literary influence on later poets and playwrights such as Marlowe and Shakespeare. Indeed, while openly concerned with the central theme of metamorphosis, these short narrative poems express deep male anxiety about female desire. Elizabethan epyllia always seemed prone to renegociate the orthodoxy of early modern ...


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Renaissance tales of desire
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ISBN: 1282481339 9786612481338 1443815969 9781443815963 9781443814201 1443814202 6612481331 9781282481336 Year: 2009 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub.

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This edition of three Ovidian tales translated and partly rewritten in the 1560's (Thomas Peend's The Pleasant fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, Thomas Underdowne's The Excellent Historye of Theseus and Ariadne and William Hubbard's The Tragicall and lamentable Histoire of two faithfull mates: Ceyx Kynge of Thracine and Alcione his wife) calls attention to the possible literary influence of such minor texts on later poets and playwrights like Marlowe and Shakespeare. Indeed, as narrative p...

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