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Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays
Contributor(s): Kolin, Philip C. (Author)

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ISBN: 081532149X     ISBN-13: 9780815321491
Publisher: Routledge
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 1997
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: 821.3
LCCN: 96037751
Series: Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History, and
Physical Information: 446 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated
 
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Publisher Description:

This is the first collection of critical essays devoted exclusively to Shakespeare's first published work, his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis which established his reputation as the literary darling of London and the heir of Ovid. Particularly important is the book's coverage of the little-known presence of Venus and Adonis on stage.A substantial introduction of 65 pagessurveys the history of criticism about the poem and its significance, and addresses such issues as the burdens of readership and the poem as a staged production. Following are 19 reprinted works from the 18th to late 20th centuries and seven original essays by leading scholars that examine the poem from a variety of theoretical and critical perspectives-Lacanian desire, semiotics and Elizabethan wardship, female readership, mythology, aesthetics and art history. An extensive chronological bibliography of scholarship, editions, and theatrical and literary reviews makes this volume indispensable.

 
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